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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Brendan O'Connor · Newspaper Panel · 21 Jun 2026 podcast

We did it in this way.

This was part of what we said to people this three days wait.

He said he didn't want to unpick.

That was the word he used.

And privately, a lot of Fianna Fáil people and a lot of Fine Gael people were saying that, that they felt that this was put to the people this three days.

Now, the other side of that was people saying, well, when people voted for

the to repeal the eighth amendment they knew that there was going to be a three-year review of the legislation we saw that review several years ago and it was recommended to remove the three-day wait because people were either timing out of the 12-week period where you could get your termination of pregnancy they couldn't access doctors you had people over the christmas time who couldn't get appointments because the way that the doctor's hours fell over the christmas so it's

You know, it's not clear-cut.

Yes, they did campaign on the three-day wait, but they also campaigned on the fact there was going to be a review.

So people had to vote with their votes.

I'm sure they were, but at the same time...

And that's up to the doctor to intervene there.

And that places an onus on the doctor and it's an uncomfortable onus on the doctor.

But I was reading online recently, it was a post I think on Reddit about maternity services and someone pointed out that when their husband was outside the room, the doctor kept saying, you know, is there anything you need to speak about?

Is there anything you want?

to talk about.

And they kind of felt like, oh, God, they're they think the worst of my husband.

But apparently and Ronan are probably able to speak to this better than I am.

But apparently doctors are very aware, especially at such a vulnerable time, such as pregnancy, of the impact that that can have on women.

But I think to come back to Brenda's point about, you know, women have taught this through, of

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