A BABY boy died one week after his birth by emergency caesarean section following a failed forceps delivery at the National Maternity Hospital, an inquest has heard.

AN inquest has heard that a forceps used in a delivery “most probably” caused a skull fracture and bleeding in a newborn boy, who died a week later.

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