A 71-year-old woman, who claimed there was no justification for the symphysiotomy she underwent after the birth of her first baby more than 50 years ago, has settled her High Court action.

The owner of a private nursing home has denied he "harassed" a nurse under his watch or suggested she cool down on a hot summer day by "opening the top buttons of your blouse".

A verdict of medical misadventure was returned at the inquest into the death of a woman whose uterus ruptured after she was medically induced at the Rotunda Hospital to deliver her stillborn baby.

A woman whose baby died in the womb went into cardiac arrest when her uterus ruptured soon after she was induced by doctors, an inquest heard.

A PUBLIC inquiry has been called for in the case of a young mother-of-two who died of hypothermia.

DUBLIN City Council has denied that the heating system in a Ballymun flat in which a mother-of-two died of hypothermia had been switched off.

THE doctor representing the family of a 30-year-old mother-of- two who died from hypothermia in her council flat, has called for an independent inquiry into her death.