Savita Halappanavar has become an icon. Her death in Galway University Hospital a year ago has taken on mythic qualities.

Planned changes to Ireland’s abortion laws do not go far enough to prevent another Savita Halappanavar tragedy, the chair of the HSE report into her death has warned.

Nursing staff failed to adequately assess and monitor Savita Halappanavar, who was suffering miscarriage as a fatal infection took over her body, a review has found.

The report into the death of Savita Halappanavar says medical staff failed to offer all management options - including a termination.

Health Minister James Reilly has been urged to scrap the existing HSE inquiry into Savita Halappanavar’s death by asking the Health Information Quality Authority to take over its control.

The terms of reference of the inquiry into Savita Halappanavar’s death were effectively presented as a fait accompli to the family, according to their solicitor Gerard O’Donnell.

The Government removed three Galway consultants from the inquiry into Savita Halappanavar’s death in a desperate attempt to rescue the investigation — but her family insists it still is not enough.

Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion should “continue to be cherished and strengthened”, according to the Catholic bishops.

Medics involved in the care of a pregnant Indian woman who died after suffering a miscarriage will be interviewed over the next three days, health chiefs have revealed.

A UK-based professor will head a health service investigation into the death of a pregnant Indian dentist in Ireland as she miscarried.