After a week of farce and frustration, the first mothers and babies arrived at Cork University Maternity Hospital for the birth of a new era in maternity care, writes Catherine Shanahan

WITHIN 24 hours of its opening, 15 babies had been born at the country’s newest maternity hospital.

TODAY has long been earmarked as a landmark day for maternity services in Cork.

THE nursery at the biggest private maternity hospital in the country has been shut down to minimise the risk of infection to babies.

I REFER to your excellent feature article (Irish Examiner July, 18 on the problems that arise when trying to devise a fair and equitable system of compensating babies and their families injured due to negligence at birth.