Hospital overcrowding and the trolley crisis could be solved if the Government spent taxpayers money correctly, Fianna Fáil has claimed.

I had a colposcopy at the start of September. The consultant advised the team I should have biopsies taken from my cervix, to be sent to a lab.

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.

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

At least 17 of the 208 women affected by the escalating cervical cancer tests scandal have died amid growing fears over the true scale of what happened.

Why has the country with the worst breastfeeding rate in the developed world just axed its international breastfeeding development programme?

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.

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.

Two Government ministers have backed plans for an imminent review of the religious patronage of more than a dozen hospitals across the country, after Health Minister Simon Harris publicly confirmed he is planning the move.

Almost one in seven mothers who gave birth at Cork University Maternity Hospital last year experienced what is classified as a “clinical incident”.

Mr. Fox is serving some nicely crafted classical French-Irish food with modern touches, says Leslie Williams.

A doctor accused of misdiagnosing an ectopic pregnancy and prescribing drugs to terminate it was following guidelines in what could have been an extremely risky situation, a Medical Council inquiry has been told.

The idea of a contraceptive pill for men has been kicking around for years, but will we see it in our lifetime? Katy Harrington goes in search of the latest research and asks if women would trust their partners to take it.

Is social egg freezing a way for women today to stop the biological clock from ticking, or just an expensive procedure that gives them false hope, asks Katy Harrington.   

More than 180 transition year (TY) students have watched a caesarean section via videolink.

Comments by the new master of the Rotunda that women carrying babies diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities should not have to travel to the UK for an abortion have been criticised by a group representing parents of such babies.

The new Master of the Rotunda has witnessed the tragedy of parents of babies with fatal foetal abnormalities having to “courier” their child’s remains home because of Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws.

Relocating the Rotunda, lock, stock and babies, from Dublin City centre to Blanchardstown, is Prof Fergal Malone’s ‘number one goal’. But the hospital’s new master isn’t one to shirk a challenge, reports Catherine Shanahan

All babies should undergo a test to find out if their mother drank alcohol during pregnancy, a neonatal expert told the Joint Committee on Health and Children.

Research from the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin has found the chances of women getting pregnant over the age of 40 drop rapidly.

The maternity hospital is set to relocate to the Connolly Hospital campus in Blanchardstown.

A fitness to practise inquiry into a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who performed hysterectomies on four elderly women has heard an expert witness defend his claims there may have been no clinical reason for the operations on two of the women.

Overcrowding the main issue behind plan as ministers deny relocations are a political stroke.

THE VENUE was laden with symbolism. Amnesty International was launching its report into the affects of Ireland’s draconian abortion laws and it was taking place in the Pillar Room in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, writes Alison O’Connor.

The formation of a new centre-left party movement will challenge the policies of the Government parties; Representatives of the dairy industry are warning against an over-reaction to a suspected case of BSE in Co Louth; A second man has died following the industrial accident in Portmarnock in Dublin. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Doctors and nurses repeatedly highlighted the risk to patients posed by theatre staff shortages at Cavan General Hospital where four babies died in the last two-and-a-half years, including a newborn earlier this week.

A football supporter, who tried to put his hand up an air stewardess’s skirt during a flight from Warsaw to Dublin on Sunday, has been spared a jail term.

Some women waiting very long periods for gynaecological treatment may have cancer, according to the master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.

Ireland’s first quintuplets felt a bit awkward returning to the centre of attention again yesterday.

An eight-year-old girl who has cerebral palsy and is severely brain damaged has settled her High Court action against the Rotunda Hospital for €2.6m.

A safety system introduced in maternity wards after Savita Halappanavar's death is not functioning properly in a number of hospitals.

Kian Anthony Bourke, who weighed in at 3.31kg, became the first baby arrival in Ireland for 2015, popping into the world just four seconds after midnight.

Concern has been expressed about cleanliness standards at the Neo-natal units at two Dublin hospitals.

Thousands of previously unknown hospital files relating to patients who underwent “barbaric” symphysiotomies have been uncovered in private “off-site” locations across the country.

The head of one of Ireland’s leading maternity hospitals has claimed the HSE has failed to enforce reforms called for in the aftermath of Savita Halappanavar’s death, insisting dangerous services and staff gaps remain.

The overwhelmed parents of Ireland's newest set of quadruplets have stocked up on more than 5,000 nappies, just to cover the first six months of nappy changing for their new large family.

A loving bundle of babies ended a Limerick couple’s heartache to have children.

It took just five seconds for 2014 to welcome its newest arrival, a beautiful girl who was due 14 days ago but held on long enough to capture the headlines.

The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

SIPTU has spoken out against the controversial top-up salaries being paid to senior executives at some of the country's hospitals.