UK abortion data shows that Irish residents accounted for nearly 4,000 abortions in the country last year.

The Irish Times reports that almost 87% of those terminations carried out on Irish women were classed as surgical, and the remainder were medical.

Three-quarters of the Irish women who underwent the procedures in England or Wales described themselves as single, while 15% were married.

Orla O'Connor, Director of the National Women's Council, told Newstalk's Breakfast there needs to be wider access to abortion for Irish women: