Members of Youth Defence, the antiabortion group, yesterday gave an undertaking to the High Court that they would abide by an order prohibiting picketing of the Irish Family Planning Association clinic in Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin.
Mr Michael P. O'Higgins, counsel for Youth Defence members, told the court his clients, while contending they had not breached or flouted the court restraint, were prepared to give undertakings not to engage in further picketing.
The association claims its clinic has been picketed in breach of a court order and that anti-abortion activists had handed out leaflets to clients of the clinic and displayed placards stating the clinic "exports Irish babies for slaughter".
It claims that since the granting of the court restraint earlier this year the association has been forced to invest more than £25,000 in additional security measures and that staff time was expended on dealing with the problem.
Mr Tony O'Brien, director of the Irish Family Planning Association, welcomed the judgment.
Youth Defence said last night it planned to challenge the original barring order.
"We believe that the outcome of this case is relevant to any person concerned with civil liberties in Ireland," its spokesman, Mr Justin Barrett, said.