Today we mourn Savita's life,she was 17 weeks pregnant when she died in University Hospital Galway after suffering a miscarriage and septicaemia and refused an abortion.And left suffer for days to die because Irish Roman Catholic ethos prevented Savita's life from being saved.

I am ashamed to be Irish tonight, because I haved allowed this Roman Catholic shit to happen, I,m protestant thank God voted to amend this shit years ago,but it was was blocked by good Roman Catholic's.

I'm so angry tonight.





Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Dáil and at other protests this evening to call on the Government to introduce legislation to allow for medical abortions.

The protests follow the tragic death of 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar in Galway last month.

Savita, aged 31, was 17 weeks pregnant when she died in University Hospital Galway after suffering a miscarriage and septicaemia.

Her husband Praveen, 34, claimed she had complained of being in agonising pain. He has said that doctors refused to carry out a medical termination because the foetus’s heartbeat was present.

Mr Halappanavar has claimed that following several requests by his late wife for a termination, they were told: “This is a Catholic country.”

Outside the Dáil, hundreds of people staged a sit-down demonstration on Kildare Street, calling on the Minister for Health James Reilly to introduce legislation for medical abortions.