A childminder on trial accused of causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby told gardaí that the child was not “violently shaken” or assaulted while in her care.

A professionally trained childminder has gone on trial charged with causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby.

The maternity unit at Cavan General Hospital where a cluster of baby deaths is under investigation still remains understaffed and unable to carry out foetal anomaly scans.

A consultant paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby that some of the baby’s injuries represented a “classic textbook case” of baby shaking.

Expert tells childminder’s trial brain injury could not reasonably have occurred before day of minding

A paediatrician has told the trial of a childminder accused of shaking a 10-month-old baby girl that it is not credible to conclude the infant's injuries were accidental.

A childminder on trial for assaulting a 10-month-old baby told gardaí the baby was not shaken in her care.

The jury has been shown photographs of bruises on the face and body of a 10-month-old baby who was allegedly violently shaken by her childminder.

Doctors and nurses repeatedly highlighted the risk to patients posed by theatre staff shortages at Cavan General Hospital where four babies died in the last two-and-a-half years, including a newborn earlier this week.

THE Dublin city coroner has decided to take the “unusual” step of recalling witnesses who have already given evidence at an inquest into the death of a baby delivered by water birth in Cavan General Hospital to allay concerns raised by the baby’s family, an inquest has heard.

A NEWBORN baby boy died as a result of an “acute near-drowning incident” while being delivered in a birthing pool at Cavan General Hospital last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

SURGICAL services at Cavan General Hospital are continuing to nosedive despite repeated recommendations for ways to improve the situation, the latest in a series of damning reports warns.

A senior doctor at Cavan General Hospital today denied that the surgical unit was in a dysfunctional state.

A SENIOR doctor at the hospital which admitted failing to take proper care of schoolgirl Frances Sheridan before she died has said problems identified in her case are repeated in all accident and emergency departments.

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