The Dublin fire of 1875 killed 13 people. However, not one person died from burns or smoke inhalation but instead from drinking contaminated whiskey writes Robert Hume

A report published eight years ago about the future of our maternity services recommended that the midlands hospital at the centre of four controversial baby deaths be brought within the governance of the Coombe — but this was not acted upon at the time.

Another baby has died at a Midlands hospital where the maternity service was recently condemned as neither safe nor sustainable.

The Coombe Maternity Hospital in Dublin has admitted it is paying salary top-ups to two senior staff.

Gardaí believed there was a risk the girl at the centre of the Dublin Roma case could have been removed from the country if they did not take her into care while her identity was being confirmed.

A midwife who engaged in lengthy court proceedings more than a decade ago to prevent An Bord Altranais stopping her assisting at home births has been struck off the nursing board’s register.

Some 19 years after a national children’s hospital was first mooted, and three years after the first deadline to build it was missed, St James’s has become the project’s site.

In two weeks’ time, the citizens of Ireland have a chance to show they are a people of action.

Tallaght hospital is more suitable to house the new national children's hospital now than it was when first considered years ago, according to a former Vice Chairman of the Board of the hospital.

The National Children’s Hospital is possibly the most important project to be developed in Ireland for the next 50 years and we have a responsibility to our children and future generations to get it right.

A midwife has lost a Supreme Court challenge to an inquiry by An Bord Altranais into allegations of professional misconduct against her.

The High Court has granted a Dublin maternity hospital orders allowing it to perform, if required, an emergency blood transfusion to the unborn child of a Jehovah's Witnesses couple who is at risk of being delivered prematurely.

One of the first babies to be born in the New Year arrived in dramatic fashion - in a jeep on the way to hospital in Dublin.

RYAN Tubridy’s selection as next host of the Late Late Show did not come as a great surprise. He was always on the shortlist.

The High Court has approved a €2.8m settlement in the case of a now 11-year-old boy who suffers from cerebral palsy after the alleged mismanagement of his birth.

ROUTINE vaccination of newborns to protect against TB has been suspended at two of the country’s largest maternity hospitals on foot of a Europe-wide shortage of the BCG vaccine.

A GARDA was arrested and questioned this weekend over allegations he sexually assaulted a colleague.