Td Says Citizen's Assembly Is A 'charade'

Socialist Party TD Ruth Coppinger has described the Citizen's Assembly on the 8th amendment as a 'charade'.

Tens of thousands of people took part in yesterday's March for Choice in Dublin. Demonstrators are calling for a referendum on the 8th Amendment - which gives equal right to life to a fetus as to a pregnant woman. A citizens' assembly will hold its first meeting - to consider the question of abortion - on Saturday the 15th of October.