Couples struggling with infertility have been facing uncertainty after it emerged that financial and legal supports promised by Leo Varadkar three years ago still has not been put in place.

After 12 years and seven unsuccessful IVF treatments, Helen Browne says fertility treatment and support should be publically funded, reports Louise McCarthy

The Government’s decision to fund infertility treatment will relieve some of the pressure on women who already face a hugely stressful and emotional journey, a leading support group has claimed.

Google and Facebook will pay for the process so female employees can delay childbirth and prolong their careers, but is it ethical, asks Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

The shame and stigma of infertility are still part and parcel of dealing with it despite far greater public awareness of how it affects people, according to the chair of the National Infertility Support and Information Group. 

Should women opt for anonymous, or non-anonymous sperm donors? And should they tell their child how they were conceived? For most it’s an agonising decision, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A leading medical law expert has described as “unconscionable” and “contrary to the best interests of children”, the Government’s failure to introduce legislation governing fertility treatments.

POOR Jennifer Aniston. Pretty, successful, and with millions in the bank, this Hollywood actress deserves our pity because she has never had children.

Reaction to the High Court ruling on surrogacy has been mixed with some groups hailing it as a breakthrough for children’s rights while others cautioned it could create as many problems as it solves.

IN the past, if a married couple failed to produce a child, there was often an assumption that the woman was “barren”, and no one ever thought there was anything wrong with the male, says Helen Browne, chairwoman of the National Infertility Support and Information Group (NISIG).

“THE pressure to have a child starts soon after being married.

COUPLES who are struggling to have children can now test their fertility in the privacy of their own homes with a simple kit costing €120.

ASSISTED reproduction is a booming industry in this country, with nine clinics opening in the past 15 years.

THE commission had to wait a year and four months before it got an office and secretarial staff after it was set up by Micheál Martin in March 2000.

MOST professionals working in the field of fertility in Ireland come under no formal guidelines or regulations, the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction warned yesterday.

A MOTHER whose daughter died as a result of fertility treatment complications protested with family and friends outside the venue of the inaugural meeting of the Irish Fertility Society yesterday.

INFERTILITY experts have said it is “madness” for a 66-year-old woman to be allowed to give birth and that nobody over the age of 45 would be allowed receive egg donations in this country.

STEM cell research is a topic of considerable interest to many members of the National Infertility Support & Information Group (NISIG) — a voluntary, non-profit, multi-denominational body set up in 1996.