Cork city and county councils are still in dispute over Cork’s boundary alteration, which will be presented to Government today.

The mayors of the city and county councils in Cork have welcomed an agreed city boundary extension which could see its population double within weeks.

The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has moved to assure the public that certain abortion methods described in the Seanad this week will not be used here.

The Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has called on the Government to allow it “active input” in framing legislation to allow for abortion in Ireland.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was aware of the miscarriage misdiagnosis crisis in August 2009, almost a year before the scandal was made public.

IN the litany of maternity care scandals at the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, one stands out: symphysiotomy.

WOMEN who underwent symphysiotomies in this country have called upon obstetricians to concede the procedures should not have taken place over the past century.

SHUTTING down six maternity hospitals outside Dublin would put thousands of women’s lives at risk unless they were replaced by proper midwifery services, a leading obstetrician warned yesterday.