Farm inspections are a requirement under EU regulations and farm scheme terms and conditions.

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Women who suffer from depression during and after pregnancy are often reluctant to admit to it for fear their baby will be taken into care.

This year the creative team behind the successful single have done it again - this time recording Tim Minchin’s When I Grow Up from the award-winning musical, Matilda.

Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion is being used to deny women choice in their maternity care, a campaign group has claimed.

The hospital a first-time mum chooses for the delivery of her child is likely to have a huge bearing on whether the infant is born naturally or by caesarean section, according to new birth statistics.

Farmers will take to the streets tomorrow to vent their frustration over factory beef price cuts and specifications changes which are eroding confidence in the sector, especially among winter finishers.

A woman’s choice of maternity hospital may dictate the type of labour she has as latest figures show a wide variation in medical intervention rates in the country’s maternity hospitals.

Patients and doctors alike have backed claims that some maternity services are a danger to women.

THE true scale of the miscarriage misdiagnosis scandal will not be uncovered unless the scope of the investigation is expanded to include the past 10 years, it has been claimed.

THE father of a toddler whose mother was wrongly told she miscarried him has described delays into a long-standing national review as “an absolute scandal”.

THE story of Michael Collins is the theme of the Tralee Musical Society’s 25th anniversary production which opened last night and runs until this Sunday, in the Siamsa Tire Theatre.

MATERNITY hospitals in the south may refuse to carry out blood tests and ultrasound scans on pregnant women who are cared for by independent midwives.