A couple served with an eviction order from the Strand apartments in Limerick just after the birth of their baby boy are among dozens of “angry and upset” tenants struggling to find a new home.

A Dublin maternity hospital has apologised to a couple and admitted its shortcomings in the treatment it provided to a couple whose child died in the womb.

The war of words in the National Maternity Hospital row grew more entrenched over the weekend, as both sides accused the other of peddling mistruths.

It is feared construction of the new National Maternity Hospital will have a negative impact on patients.

The terms of reference for the inquiry must be as wide as possible, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

A report published eight years ago about the future of our maternity services recommended that the midlands hospital at the centre of four controversial baby deaths be brought within the governance of the Coombe — but this was not acted upon at the time.

A teenage girl with severe brain injuries has secured €4m as settlement of her High Court action against a Dublin maternity hospital.

A New York-based group has filed a lawsuit against a Nairobi maternity hospital which detains new mothers who cannot pay their bills.

The former Master of the National Maternity Hospital says a public inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar would be the wrong way to go.

A senior consultant has described plans by the HSE to establish a trust to oversee the operation of six hospitals in the Mid-West as “rampant managerialism” and “guaranteed to fail”.

Women and newborns are at risk of serious medical problems because the recruitment ban is forcing them out of maternity units early and without adequate after-care support.

Health chiefs intend cutting 52 agency nurses and midwives filling frontline vacancies in Cork, it was claimed today.

The High Court has heard that a young girl suffered "devastating and permanent injuries" as a result of an alleged failure to recognise that she had developed water on the brain in the weeks and months shortly after she was born.

IN MANY cases, these mothers didn’t expect to be brandishing Christmas Day babies but they were all delighted after experiencing one of the most unforgettable Christmas Days of their lives.

WHETHER the French woman who killed eight of her newborns suffered from a syndrome known as pregnancy denial may determine if she faces major prison time or intensive psychiatric care.

Births at the Coombe in Dublin jumped by 5% in 2007, compared to the previous year, according to the hospital's 2007 annual report.

THE Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) and the Psychiatric Nurses Association have announced that they will escalate their industrial action on Wednesday of next week with rolling stoppages around the country in support of their demands for a pay increase of 10% and a 35-hour working week.

NON-EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled due to the nurses’ work-to-rule, which begins today.

Midwives and nurses voted last night in favour of relocating to Cork's new multi-million-euro maternity hospital following a ballot of members late last night

THE immediate fate of Cork’s new maternity hospital will be decided at a crucial meeting of midwives tonight.

THE proud parents of Ireland’s new quadruplets have named their babies - Daniel, Aaron, Abbie and Raicheal.

BED numbers are expected to be increased at a Dublin maternity hospital next year so they can help mothers-to-be who can’t be treated at Holles Street because of its planned cap on numbers.

A Dublin maternity hospital is being accused of giving parents whose babies died the wrong bodies back.

THE preliminary report on the fire damage to St Finbarr’s maternity hospital in Cork is due today.

ALMOST 30% of all babies born in Ireland are to unmarried, single women, a study of births at the National Maternity Hospital has found.

THE security company which foiled the abduction of a baby from a maternity hospital is to create 200 new jobs in a nationwide expansion.