Fertility specialists here have seen a 50% increase over the past five years in the number of couples travelling abroad for donor egg treatment.

Women tend to think the best time to start a family is when they’re ready, but experts warn against delaying parenthood, says Áilín Quinlan.

A Cork fertility clinic has claimed a world-first in achieving a pregnancy where use of a ground-breaking technique ensured a couple, at risk of passing on a severe genetic disease to their unborn child, did not do so.

The medical director of one of the country’s main fertility clinics has said it is time to end "muddled thinking" on egg donation and pay donors.

A charity organisation is providing a liaison nurse at Cork University Hospital for women and families affected by gynaecological cancers, such as ovarian and cervical cancer.