Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe, spokesperson for Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Ireland:

CHILD psychologist Patricia Rashbrook was 62 when she had a baby in 2006.

IN the first days of Seán’s life, his parents, Joe and Sandra Kavanagh, hoped he had Hirschsprung’s disease. A condition of the large intestine, it causes constipation.

A TRANSATLANTIC jet had to divert and land at Dublin Airport on Tuesday after a passenger on board suddenly went into labour.

A CORONER has deemed the death of a five-year-old girl who suffered brain damage when just six weeks old after being given prescription baby food containing 124-times the permitted level of magnesium as a medical accident.

YES, I too would like a referendum on our health service as Dr Christine O’Malley and Dr Bertie Daly suggest (Letters, June 27).

A WOMAN with a family history of cervical cancer was forced to wait seven months for the result of a smear test, even though the findings were sitting in Holles Street Hospital for five months.

ONE of the country’s largest maternity hospitals is considering removing its quota on admissions due to a falling number of births in the Dublin region.

The parents of two babies whose organs were retained by Holles Street Hospital in the 1990s have lost their action for damages at the High Court.