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AN IRISH WOMAN live tweeting her journey to the UK for an abortion is getting international reaction.
The woman is accompanied by another woman who is helping her document the journey via the Twitter account @twowomentravel.
The tweets which began early this morning each mention the Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s Twitter account, @EndaKennyTD.
The twitter bio reads: “Two Women, one procedure, 48 hours away from home.”
Two Women Travel / Twitter
Two Women Travel / Twitter / Twitter
Two Women Travel / Twitter
Two Women Travel / Twitter / Twitter
The account has received a great deal of support, both in Ireland and abroad, trending in the UK after being featured in an article on The Guardian website.
The newspaper points out that about 10 women a day are thought to travel from Ireland to Great Britain or another European country for the procedure.
Two Women Travel / Twitter
Two Women Travel / Twitter / Twitter
The women have also garnered support from the well-known British TV presenter James Cordon this morning.
James Corden / Twitter
James Corden / Twitter / Twitter
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has not responded to any of the tweets directed at him.
TheJournal.ie asked for a comment from Kenny in relation to the tweets, but none has been received at the time of publication.
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Sympathy to the poor woman, but serious sympathy to the poor truck driver, this is becoming all to frequent in this country, he was only doing his days work, minding his own business.
That poor woman. Her whole life turned upside down on a morning where we all should be just enjoying the sunshine and then this happens. Devastated for her.
This is utterly horrible. Poor young mum. Poor wee kid. Words fail me
So tragic. How is that mother ever going to get over this. Rip little man. Watch over your mam.
Looks like it was deliberate. I could be wrong but it looks like attempted murder of the woman and murder/ suicide of the child and man. I know that road well and if he was from Lattin he would know it well too and would know not to overtake. Rip to both and my utmost sympathy to the mother of the little boy.
He’s not eastern European, his parents are Italian, but he was born and raised here,
Don’t like the look where this story is going
It’s easy to condemn but the poor man must have been in a very distressed state of mind to do something like that.
RIP.
Fcuk him. He just destroyed a mothers life and murdered her son. If he lives we would all be saying he should be locked up. But now that he died we feel sorry for him. And don’t get me started on the funeral service for this fella where the priests says “it’s a dark day”.. This man just murdered his son and attempted to murder his partner. S(umbag
Ricky.. Most murdering b@stards are in a distressed state of mind
When a mother murders her children society reaches out the hand of compassion and understanding.
Why is it not the same for fathers?
Ricky. Murdering mothers are worse than mothering dads
Just think about what happened here for a moment………and reflect on how this situation spiralled out of control to this point. The human tragedy involved.
Can we truly say we understand it and as such are in a position to make a judgement call one way or the other?
Sinead I hope you are never in a situation where your mind is so badly messed up by depression that you are not thinking rationally. Obviously this man was out of his mind doing this and it breaks my heart that a little boy has died and his mother had to go through such an assault, but nobody knows his circumstances and shouldn’t be quick to judge that he was ” evil” . I’m not saying I agree with what he did because I don’t , but with serious mental health problems a while back myself I know that your mind does not think normally . I certainly hope this is the case with him because I’d hate to think this WAS an act of pure evil
Oh no. That poor little boy. Whether the crash was an accident or deliberate, no child deserves that.
So sad, too much detail re the crash. Horrible set of circumstances
It’s just so sad to be hearing about theses suicides , people should always realised that life is 2 step backwards and 1 step forward , this carry on could be avoided… RIP to the little lad … So sad !
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