Grandparents for REPEAL launches today in Dublin City Centre

Carol Hunter, founder of Grandparents for Repeal, former deputy Labour leader Liz Mc Manus, retired Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness, former education minister Gemma Hussey and broadcaster and journalist Vincent Browne will all be in Dublin this morning to officially launch Grandparents for Repeal.

The parents of Ruth Bowie who travelled to Britain for a termination after receiving a fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis will be in attendance, along with  Dr Siobhan Donohue who also travelled to Britain after receiving a similar diagnosis on her third child.

Veteran activist Frank Crummey, Midwife Philomena Canning and the parents of Arlette Lyons who also travelled to Britain after an FFA diagnosis will also be there. 

When asked about why she founded the group, Carol Hunter said "I founded this group as a grandmother talking to my age-group and then realised that this demographic was least in favour of repealing the Eighth Amendment."

"I therefore focussed on their genuinely held concerns by providing them with data, information and testimony that allows a change of narrative, showing that terminations are part of life and needed in a plethora of circumstances," she continued.

Grandparents for Repeal has no political affiliations. It is a civic-based group and a member of Together for Yes.