The solicitor representing the couple that had a pregnancy terminated at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) after tests showed their baby had a fatal fetal abnormality said they must be “at the heart” of any investigation into the tragedy.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said an appropriate external review is warranted into the controversy over a pregnancy termination at the National Maternity Hospital.

A couple have been left devastated after aborting their baby because tests showed that it had a fatal foetal abnormality - only for a subsequent test after the abortion to show that it did not.

A €3m settlement, made without admission of liability, has been approved by the High Court for a permanently disabled young girl with cerebral palsy who alleged negligence in the circumstances of her delivery at the National Maternity Hospital.

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The State is to to pay the costs of a case in which the High Court blocked an inquiry into patient health and welfare at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.

A deal has not been reached on who will build, own and run the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) despite planners giving it the go-ahead this week.

The HSE has had to contract outside consultants, for the second time, to get a €35m IT maternity system operational in two Dublin hospitals.

"I just wish I could return to my old life. The one where the love of my life was still alive and we were expecting our first child. My life after my wife’s death has been a never-ending nightmare."

An IT system for maternity hospitals that came with a €35m price tag has cost the HSE hundreds of thousands in additional consultancy fees.

THE announcement that the Sisters of Charity will not be involved in a new national maternity hospital must have been a bitter pill to swallow for the order, the Catholic hierarchy and the wider tradition of Irish Catholicism. 

The Government is considering a long-term lease, with a nominal rent, for the site of the proposed new National Maternity Hospital.

LATEST:A Government TD has broken ranks to call on Health Minister Simon Harris to consider buying the €300m land on which the new National Maternity Hospital will be built in a bid to end the escalating scandal.

The board of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group has reiterated its backing for the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital to its grounds and insisted it “will continue to serve the people of Ireland by providing world class medical facilities and standards of care”.

GP, Columnist and broadcaster Dr Ciara Kelly gave her opinion on a number of topical issues on The Late Late Show last night, including the current storm surrounding the National Maternity Hospital.

It’s just over three years since Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan resigned. It’s not quite three years since Justice Minister Alan Shatter quit cabinet.

An agreement has been reached to form a new company for the new National Maternity Hospital.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said there is no “plan B” if a row over the new National Maternity Hospital is not resolved.

Labour Relations Commission chairman Kieran Mulvey is to be drafted in to mediate a dispute between St Vincent’s Hospital and The National Maternity Hospital.

The row between the National Maternity Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital over their co-location plans has deepened after a top obstetrician said the latter’s insistence on giving its Catholic-ethos board control over its new neighbour made no sense.

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.

The first monthly safety statements published for all 19 of the country’s maternity units show widely differing levels of births by caesarian section as well as perinatal mortality rates.

The Supreme Court has been asked to decide how much the National Maternity Hospital must pay towards the €1.16m cost of a specially adapted new home in Sandymount, Dublin, for a girl who suffered catastrophic injuries due to admitted negligence during her birth at the hospital.

Rhona Mahony, master of the NMH, said doctors can only carry out an abortion if there is a substantial risk to the life of the mother.

TWO BABIES born late last year in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe have died. Seven families in all have had their babies referred for “brain cooling” because of suspected “apoxia” — lack of oxygen to the brain — during their births at the hospital.

An independent expert has suggested that a young mother who died in childbirth after suffering major bleeding may have had a toxic reaction to drugs administered as doctors tried to save her, an inquest has heard.

The master of The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Rhona Mahony, told an inquest she does not believe that a woman who waited 37 minutes for a blood transfusion had a heart attack as a result of a drop in blood volume.

The Health Minister James Reilly has announced that the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in central Dublin, will be moved to the site of the Elm Park development beside St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4.

If the Duffy family are forced to sell their home to pay €500,000 in legal costs after losing a case against the National Maternity Hospital, it could cost the State €2m to care for their severely disabled son, Mark, for the rest of his life.

The High Court has today dismissed a medical negligence claim brought on behalf of a child with profound physical and mental difficulties against the National Maternity Hospital.

AN inquest has heard that a forceps used in a delivery “most probably” caused a skull fracture and bleeding in a newborn boy, who died a week later.

THE High Court has approved a €4.75 million award to young girl who suffered “devastating and permanent injuries” due to an alleged failure to treat her hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, in the weeks and months after she was born.

A WOMAN who was moments away from losing her baby due to the miscarriage misdiagnosis scandal has warned she will never receive justice if the HSE insists on confining its nationwide review to the last five years.

A six-year-old permanently brain damaged boy is to receive €4.5 million plus legal costs in settlement of his marathon legal action against the National Maternity Hospital alleging negligence in the management of his birth. The hospital also faces a total legal bill of an estimated €4m.

A six-year-old, permanently brain-damaged boy is to receive €4.5m plus legal costs in settlement of his marathon legal action against the National Maternity Hospital alleging negligence in the management of his birth.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy who is seriously mentally and physically disabled due to alleged negligence during his birth at the National Maternity Hospital has begun an action for damages in the High Court.

Presumably the suggestion from a former master of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) that a cap would be put on the number of babies to be delivered there next summer was meant to concentrate the minds of the members of the Government.

HALF of non-EU mothers giving birth at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) are seeking passports for their children, the hospital’s master said yesterday.

THE National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at Holles Street in Dublin last year recorded the highest number of perinatal deaths for five years, according to its latest annual clinical report.