Máiréad Enright is a Reader in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham and a Leverhulme Research Fellow.
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Women’s Invisible Labour, Kinkeeping and Care: Ireland’s 8 March Constitutional Referendum
On International Women’s Day, Ireland will hold votes on two proposed changes to Article 41 of the Constitution. The first would extend constitutional protection to families other than those based on marriage, while preserving ...
Ireland’s Abortion Law Reform
The report of the Independent Review of Ireland’s abortion legislation was published this week. Abortion legislation was passed in 2019 following a referendum removing the 8th Amendment (a foetal life provision) from the constitution. ...
Responding to Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report
Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report was published last week. This is the latest in a series of state investigations into so-called ‘historical’ institutional injustice. Following an established pattern, ...
Sealing the Records of Irish Institutional Abuse
The Irish Oireachtas (parliament) has passed controversial legislation relating to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission archives. The Commission’s report should be published by the end of the year. It will provide an official history ...
Abortion Law Reforms in Ireland
In A, B & C v. Ireland the European Court of Human Rights held that Ireland must end its 20-year delay in legislating for the limited constitutional right to abortion, recognised by the Supreme Court in a case famously known ...
