The family of a six-year-old Co Cork girl is hoping she will shortly get the go-ahead to travel to the US for a life-changing operation.

Karen Russell spends every second of every day looking after her son.

A six-year-old Cork boy who can only communicate by moving his eyes has brought a High Court action for damages relating to the injuries he suffered at birth.

Private security in six HSE hospitals cost over €2m in 2010 and almost €900,000 for the first six months of 2011.

DEMOLITION work is due to start next week on part of a former Cork city maternity hospital.

PLANS to build a special 100-bed community care unit for the elderly in Cork city are in doubt because of planning oversights almost a decade ago.

The number of patients infected with the potentially lethal hospital superbug MRSA fell slightly last year, new figures revealed today.

HOPES of a breakthrough in the midwives row threatening the opening of a €75 million maternity hospital were dashed last night.

MIDWIVES at a large private hospital have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a row over the introduction of a unified maternity service in Cork.

MIDWIVES at a large private hospital are to ballot for industrial action tomorrow in a row over redundancy.

THE High Court has approved a €1.5 million settlement on behalf of a six-year-old child who suffered a permanent disfigurement after she lost all of her fingers on one hand in the weeks after her birth.

ONE of a row of three-storey redbricks on Cork’s Western Road, 2, Inniscarrig also has an 150ft back garden which runs down the river Lee.

COMPARING Cork’s main existing maternity hospital, the Erinville, to its successor, the Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), is like comparing 1960s Ireland with the Celtic Tiger.

A WOMAN who has fostered an astonishing 113 babies has been declared Cork Person of the Month.

IF the proud mums of babies delivered yesterday wanted to know just how special a club their children had entered by virtue of being born on February 29, they only had to look at the glitz and glamour of last night’s Oscar ceremony in Hollywood.

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.

A 36-year-old woman confessed today to the charge of abducting a baby at the Erinville Hospital in Cork last September.

NIAMH O'SHEA was expecting to deliver her third child around New Year's Day but her parcel of joy was delivered on Christmas Day instead.

A WOMAN charged with abducting a baby from a maternity hospital told gardaí she was sorry for what she had done, a court heard yesterday.

The woman charged with abducting a baby at the Erinville Hospital in Cork had been seen in the vicinity of the hospital numerous times when she had no reason to be there, it was claimed today.