The first quadruplets ever born in Cork celebrated their 18th birthday with a visit to the medical team who delivered them.

An 8-year-old girl with dyskinetic cerebral palsy after her birth at a Cork hospital has settled her action against the HSE for €5.8m.

THE chairwoman of the office of Post Natal Depression (PND) Ireland, Madge Fogarty, said she feels like she is “banging her head off a brick wall” when it comes to making the HSE realise the extent and importance of educating pregnant women and counselling them post-natally.

MIDWIVES at a private hospital have suspended proposed industrial action to facilitate talks.

A PRIVATE hospital attempted to reassure expectant mothers yesterday ahead of planned industrial action by midwives.