A childminder on trial for assaulting a 10-month-old baby told gardaí the baby was not shaken in her care.

The jury has been shown photographs of bruises on the face and body of a 10-month-old baby who was allegedly violently shaken by her childminder.

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.

THE Dublin city coroner has decided to take the “unusual” step of recalling witnesses who have already given evidence at an inquest into the death of a baby delivered by water birth in Cavan General Hospital to allay concerns raised by the baby’s family, an inquest has heard.

A NEWBORN baby boy died as a result of an “acute near-drowning incident” while being delivered in a birthing pool at Cavan General Hospital last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

SURGICAL services at Cavan General Hospital are continuing to nosedive despite repeated recommendations for ways to improve the situation, the latest in a series of damning reports warns.

A senior doctor at Cavan General Hospital today denied that the surgical unit was in a dysfunctional state.

A SENIOR doctor at the hospital which admitted failing to take proper care of schoolgirl Frances Sheridan before she died has said problems identified in her case are repeated in all accident and emergency departments.

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