Enda Kenny on abortion: bringing Ireland back to the 1950s

Since Garret Fitzgerald's time, up to this week, I was an enthusiastic Fine Gael voter. I remember a real sense of disappointment when John Bruton's coalition was voted out of office. I will not be voting for Enda Kenny's flavour of Fine Gael, however. The reason is my total disgust at his effrontery in giving a guarantee to the The Irish Catholic newspaper that, if returned, his party will not legislate on the abortion issues highlighted by the "X" case.
Does Enda Kenny have any idea of what representative democracy means? Does he realise that those who are elected into office have the responsibility to govern on behalf of all the people and not just for one sectional interest, no matter how broad it is perceived to be?

A responsible government would eliminate the kind of trauma that was suffered recently by a young citizen in the "C" case. Even the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Martin, is on record as indicating a belief that the situation arising from the "X" case needs to be legislated for:

'Diarmuid Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, said the foetus was "still a human person and therefore has rights. The legal problem was there for the entire last session of the Dail and I saw no politician rushing to address it."': David McKittrick, UK Independent newspaper, 4 May.

This leaves one to wonder who speaks for the Catholic Church in Ireland these days, the Archbishop or the "Irish Catholic" newspaper, and to which element of that organisation Enda Kenny is bending the knee. He almost seems to be on a course that will bring us back to the Ireland of the 1950s.

Seamus McKenna, Dundrum, Dublin 14