AN ANTI-ABORTION EVENT called ‘Celebrate the 8th’ was held in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

Campaigners at the event are calling for the 8th amendment to be protected. The controversial law gives equal right to the life of the unborn child and the mother.

Sinead Slattery from the Pro Life Campaign told TheJournal.ie, “We’re here to celebrate the eighth amendment … because it is responsible for saving the lives of thousands of people in this country.

If we didn’t have the 8th amendment in our constitution, it’s inevitable that we would have an abortion regime similar to the UK.

Recent figures have shown that each day last year more than nine women travelled from the Republic of Ireland to the UK to have an abortion.