Around a thousand people have marched in Dublin to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar and to call for changes to abortion laws.
Speaking at the Garden of Remembrance before the march set off, Orla O'Connor of the National Women's Council called for an end to the three-day waiting period before a woman can get an abortion and the abolition of the 12-week limit.
As the march went down O'Connell Street they passed a small protest in support of women in Iran. The two groups applauded each other
The protesters visited the site of the repeal mural at the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar where they observed a minute's silence in memory of Ms Halappanavar and a poem in tribute to her was read out by a member of the Indian community.
At City Hall speakers included former TD Ruth Coppinger, who linked the campaign here to feminism around the world saying the reversal of the Roe V Wade ruling in the United States is a warning to women here
Dr Peter Boylan, former Master of the National Maternity Hospital, said even services legally available may not be accessible to all because some hospitals did not offer them and there are counties where there are no GPs who offer abortion services.
There was also a call to create a permanent memorial to Ms Halappanavar.
Ms Halappanavar, 31, died in a Galway hospital in 2012 after she was refused a termination while miscarrying.
He death was one of the catalysts for abortion reform in Ireland that saw the electorate voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment in a 2018 referendum, ushering in a major liberalisation of Ireland's abortion law and ending what was effectively a constitutional ban on abortion.
A medical abortion is available up to 12 weeks but abortions thereafter are only allowed if there is a serious threat to the life or health of the mother, or where two clinicians agree there is a fatal foetal abnormality.
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Pro Life Campaign spokesperson Eilís Mulroy said it is "unfair and disingenuous" for the tenth anniversary of Ms Halappanavar's death to see calls for "an even more extreme expansion of the Irish abortion law".
"Whilst her tragic death was the result of medical oversight, it was not caused by the Eighth Amendment as campaigners for abortion have incessantly claimed," she said.
"Mismanaged sepsis was the cause of Savita's death, as backed up by several independent reports, and not the denial of an abortion.
"Ten years on from her death, it is highly inappropriate for campaigners and pro-abortion politicians to continue leaning on myths and mistruths to push for a radical expansion of Ireland's already extreme abortion law."
