Louise Byrne
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598 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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during the Sock Dems motion a couple of months ago, which did go further, talked about, you know, fetal-fatal abnormalities and the kind of timeframes there and the criminalisation of doctors.
And they just kind of felt that the Sock Dems went too far.
So Sinn Féin narrowed it down to this one specific focus.
And what you ultimately saw was a division, not only in Cabinet, but in Fine Gael and in Fianna Fáil, where you had 11 people in Fine Gael voting yes, while 23 voted no, and 12 people in Fianna Fáil voting yes.
and 30 voting no I think what everyone was kind of speculating about on Wednesday particularly in Fianna Fáil were how were their potential new leaders going to vote and the attention as it always is and as it has been for the last couple of months when you speak about leadership is on Jim O'Callaghan the Dublin Bay South TD and Dara Cleary the Mayo TD and there was an assumption that
that they might vote in different ways and that could split the party, you know, who would be backing who.
Ultimately, both of them voted no and they voted against the Sinn Féin proposal.
And I think that's what's interesting.
And Alison O'Connor mentioned it in her piece that, you know, is...
Jim O'Callaghan or Dara Kaliri who are seen I mean Jack and Dara O'Brien their names are also in the half for the leadership but the attention is very much on Jim and on Dara Kaliri for the leadership are they aligning themselves with perhaps the more conservative wing of the party which has always existed I mean I was speaking to someone earlier in the week about that infamous photo of the 31 Fianna Fáil TDs
And during the 20, just before the 2018 abortion referendum with the vote no and love both signs and Marion Square Park.
And they were saying that that photo has haunted an awful lot of them over the last seven or eight years.
But a lot of them are sticking true to their values.
And there is that more conservative feeling within the party.
What Jim O'Callaghan did say during the week, and I love to say he was...
He was defending his explanation because he was free to vote however he wanted.
And I think that is important, by the way, to remember that people were free to vote how they wanted.
But Jim O'Callaghan said, Jim O'Callaghan did say, he said it on Thursday, he was kind of asked to explain the reason why he voted the way he did.
And he said, well, listen, we went, I...
campaign for repeal in 2018.
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