Dr Peter Boylan (November 14) has reopened the debate on the new ‘National Maternity Hospital’.

An independent review into the circumstances of an abortion at the National Maternity Hospital is to be carried out, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed to the Dáil.

The contract for the first phase of the National Maternity Hospital project has been approved.

The husband and son of a woman who died at the National Maternity Hospital hours after undergoing an emergency Caesarean section to deliver her baby have settled for €650,000 their High Court action for nervous shock.

Claims that services at the new National Maternity Hospital will be free from religious influence cannot truthfully be made.

The High Court has blocked Health Minister Simon Harris’s direction for an inquiry into patient health and welfare at the National Maternity Hospital, following the tragic death of a young woman during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy in 2016.

The Government is being called on to clarify if the new National Maternity Hospital will be run under a Catholic ethos.

A reworked plan is required to ensure public funding is spent on an authentic national maternity hospital in public ownership and under public control, writes Marie O’Connor.

Public confidence in the country's maternity services could be undermined under a statutory inquiry into the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) ordered by the Minister for Health after the death of a woman during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, the High Court has heard.

An inquiry into practices at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) ordered by the Minister for Health in the wake of the death of a woman during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy could take three years to complete, the High Court has heard.

The former master of the National Maternity Hospital has claimed some consultant posts are now “so unattractive that no applications are received”.

The National Maternity Hospital (NMH) claims a new inquiry arising over the death of a woman during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy will have a "chilling effect" on the operation of maternity services.

A man whose wife died during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, has settled his High Court action.

There is still no decision as to who will own the new National Maternity Hospital.

A deal has not been reached on who will build, own and run the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) despite planners giving it the go-ahead this week.

Latest: A member of the board of St Vincent's Healthcare Group says they found out the Sisters of Charity is divesting its interests in the organisation through the media.

It is feared the new National Maternity Hospital will bring south Dublin's traffic to a halt.

Health Minister Simon Harris is due to meet the boards of St Vincent’s Hospital and Holles Street over the national maternity hospital standoff this week amid ongoing public anger over the location of the facility.

Pressure is continuing to mount on the Health Minister over the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital.

LATEST: Up to 1,500 people have protested in Dublin over the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital.

The Health Minister says giving him an extra month to examine the ownership model of the National Maternity Hospital will help him get it "absolutely right".

The Government is considering a long-term lease, with a nominal rent, for the site of the proposed new National Maternity Hospital, writes Juno McEnroe.

A national march has been organised in protest against the “religious ownership” of the new National Maternity Hospital.

The problem is we all know the Church plays a very long game, and sticks, religiously, to its beliefs, writes Alison O’Connor

LATEST: The board of the National Maternity Hospital has reiterated support for the agreement for it to move to the St Vincent's Hospital campus..

Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse.

The Department of Health’s secretary general failed to tell Health Minister Simon Harris of serious concerns over the independence of the new national maternity hospital when they were raised in May 2016.

Last Sunday, shortly after lunchtime, Peter Boylan, the eminent ex-master of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles St, picked up his phone to send a text.

LATEST: The Department of Health has denied claims from Dr Peter Boylan that it was warned last year about a possible religious influence on the new National Maternity Hospital.

In some ways, the controversy over the ownership of the new maternity hospital is the most bizarre I’ve ever come across. And the reason is simple. We don’t know enough about it to make a judgement. In fact, we don’t know anything.

The Minister for Social Protection has called for calm heads to prevail amidst controversy over the new national maternity Hospital.

Protests are taking place around the country today over the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital at the St Vincent's site in Dublin.

LATEST: Labour’s Health Spokesperson Alan Kelly TD has said that Minister Simon Harris should consider bringing in legislation, if necessary, to initiate a compulsory purchase order for the St Vincent’s Hospital site, if the deal to build the new National Maternity Hospital does not go ahead.

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The Government is being accused of showing a total disconnect with Irish women in handing ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity.

Money owed by the Sisters of Charity to the redress scheme did not feature in discussions to move the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s Hospital campus, it has emerged.

An online petition to block The Sisters of Charity from owning the new national maternity hospital has got thousands of signatures overnight.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said there is no “plan B” if a row over the new National Maternity Hospital is not resolved.

It has been confirmed that a pregnant woman died at the National Maternity Hospital, in Holles Street in Dublin.

A row over who will control the new National Maternity Hospital has intensified.

The war of words in the National Maternity Hospital row grew more entrenched over the weekend, as both sides accused the other of peddling mistruths.

A woman has been awarded almost €140,000 in damages after a hospital left a swab inside her for three weeks in December 2012.

Schools should teach girls to have babies in their 20s, rather than waiting until their 30s to start a family, a consultant obstetrician at the National Maternity Hospital

The Master of the National Maternity Hospital has said the current abortion law in Ireland does nothing to help women.