The Tanaiste and Labour leader has described comments by Fianna Fail Senator Jim Walsh during the Seanad abortion debate yesterday as "inappropriate" and "over the top".
Eamon Gilmore says he was disappointed by the language used in the debate, during which Senator Walsh gave graphic accounts of abortion.
While the Social Protection minister Joan Burton said some of the men who have been venting on the issue need to cop themselves on.
Sinead Spain reports....