The first quadruplets ever born in Cork celebrated their 18th birthday with a visit to the medical team who delivered them.

CORK University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) was officially opened yesterday but a cynic would ask “why now?”.

APPROXIMATELY 200 outpatient appointments at the country’s newest maternity hospital have had to be cancelled because the hospital failed to open on schedule at the weekend.

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.