Brid Shine, a bereavement midwife at the Coombe Hospital, says the strike is about much more than pay.

It was “awful” that over 20,000 women did not get a foetal anomaly scan last year, a leading professor of obstetrics told a Dáil committee yesterday.

The Health Minister has defended a plan to move the Rotunda Maternity hospital to his constituency in west Dublin.

The Coombe Hospital in Dublin is to take over the running of maternity services at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.

THE Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22, 1949, was an important day for the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles Mc Quaid. On that day Mount Carmel Hospital opened in Dublin run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.