Once better known as the world’s oldest continuously operating maternity hospital, Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital is now attracting attention for the overcrowding “crisis” in its neonatal unit.

Dublin welcomed its first baby of the new decade this morning.

Staff have raised over €40,000 to help pay for a new heart ultrasound machine for the neonatal unit.

The death of a newborn baby at one of the country’s busiest maternity hospitals is being investigated by gardaí.

The tragic death of a newborn baby at one of the country's busiest maternity hospitals is being investigated by gardaí.

Kind-hearted volunteers have created an unusual festive centrepiece for their community centre - a 6ft 2' knitted Christmas tree.

Pregnancy is often an anxious time, but in this country, mothers-to-be are offered a number of routine screening tests which can show whether they or their babies are at risk of certain health problems.

The parents of a baby boy who died four days after birth say they take comfort from new guidelines introduced following his death.

There are no plans to increase the number of sexual assault treatment units across the country, Health Minister, Simon Harris has said.

The Rotunda Hospital is now taking patients seeking abortion from outside the Dublin area, not just its normal catchment area of North Dublin.

Hospitals in the south of the country were still awaiting “the promised staffing and resources” needed to provide abortion a day before the service was introduced.

Just build the damn thing.

Many cases of perinatal and postnatal depression go undiagnosed due to a lack of continuity of midwifery care. The long-term consequences can be devastating, writes Geraldine Walsh.

There was a 31% increase in the number of individuals attending the sexual assault treatment unit (SATU) in Cork last year.

A Dublin maternity hospital has apologised to the parents of a stillborn baby whose identical twin survived.

A "very eager" baby has been born outside the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

Over €2m has been spent since 2014 upgrading hospital laboratory information systems which are in the process of being replaced.

Irish doctors should be allowed to perform abortions in cases of “fatal or complex foetal abnormalities” without the threat of being sent to jail, says the head of one of Ireland’s biggest maternity hsopitals.

The national rollout of a €35m IT system designed to improve care for mothers and babies has been put on hold until a digital link is in place that will allow electronic sharing of data between maternity hospitals and GPs.

A €35m ‘landmark’ IT system to record maternal and newborn care has struggled to live up to its billing, writes Catherine Shanahan Health Correspondent    

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

One of Ireland's busiest maternity hospitals had to close its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for two days because of the risk of infection.

There is “no safe amount and no safe time” during pregnancy to drink alcohol, given an estimated 600 babies are born here each year with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), a specialist in public health medicine has warned.

The lack of dedicated sexual assault treatment units for children is adding “immensely” to the trauma of families trying to deal with child sex abuse.

Aiding his elderly mother inspired him to create ProU, a fortified yogurt, Michael Murphy tells Trish Dromey.

Limerick mother Aine Laffan cooked up a New Year’s Day storm in her kitchen as she delivered her son Odhran on the kitchen floor.

The master of the Rotunda Hospital has told an inquiry that a doctor under review was right to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy and that conservative management of the case would have put the mother’s life at risk.

A prominent medic has rejected the idea that women who have C-section births are simply "too posh to push".

A major hunt is under way for three men after a woman was dragged away from her bike, pulled into a park, and raped.

A rape survivor has urged people who were attacked to come forward instead of staying silent, but admitted that living through the memory of what happened during the hospital examination was “like being raped again”.