sinead redmond and caroline simons, thanks for being here. thank you. is looking fine across most of the uk, on wednesday it will feel warm as well. clear blue skies on the way. not necessarily from the word "go", in the morning in northern and eastern counties it will be cloudy. this is the jet stream, being diverted to the north in the direction of scandinavia. the jet stream, this far north, being well away from it, the weather will remain settled. in fact it will be warming up remain settled. in fact it will be warming up across remain settled. in fact it will be warming up across europe in the next few days. that warmth heads to us, towards the end of the week and into the weekend. short—term, it is ten in the south. there is cloud first thing in the morning. it burns back to the coastline, but these coastal districts, they could stay cool. these yellows compared to the deep oranges, it may even be a 10 degrees difference, 23 in london and about 13 in newcastle but for most, it a fine and beautiful day. a slight change, a big change, on thursday. i

sinead redmond and caroline simons, welcome to hardtalk. sinead, let me start with you.land is an outlier on this question of abortion, if one looks across the european union. ireland's laws are much more restrictive than the average across europe. why do you think that is? there is a cultural and historical context in which we have traditionally been a catholic country and we are an outlier in terms of abortion access but similar to malta which also has the same cultural and historical context. there is also the fact we are a post—colonial nations so traditionally they find their own identity in different ways from the coloniser and our difference was that we are a catholic country so there was a long history of self identification with the catholic nation as part of what it meant to be irish. that identification and at that level of, ithink, probably controlled by the catholic church has been slipping away over the last 20 or 30 years and we've seen it in the referendums of the 1990s, such as the 1995 divorce referendum which allowed irish citizens to divorce the first

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