In the wake of the UN Human Rights Committee’s ruling that a woman carrying a foetus with a fatal abnormality was subjected to discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the Republic of Ireland, the question of repealing the 8th has arisen again.

Newbie TD for Cork South West and Fianna Fail’s Spokesperson for Disability, Margaret Murphy O’Mahony, joined the Floating Voter on this week’s show and voiced her strong pro-life views on the matter.

“I personally am very, very, pro-life and it’s a red-line issue for me,” she told the Floating Voter team of Kevin Doyle, Philip Ryan and Niall O’Connor. “ I don’t agree with repealing the 8th amendment but it is very personal and I don’t agree with ramming my views down people’s throats and wouldn’t expect others to ram their views down mine either."