Two of the country’s most senior experts in maternity care expressed divergent views yesterday on whether Irish law is clear about the circumstances in which a pregnant woman is entitled to an abortion.

A senior consultant has said he sees no evidence of confusion in medical ranks in Ireland over whether or not a woman can have an abortion if her life is at risk.

THE head of the country’s oldest maternity hospital has repeated a 266-year-old plea for Santa to solve his facility’s funding and staffing crisis because health service management can’t do so.

The head of the country's biggest maternity hospital has claimed a lack of investment is putting the lives of pregnant women and their babies at risk.

BREDA Heary only found out last week that her baby’s organs had been retained by the Rotunda Hospital without her knowledge.

FAMILIES affected by the organ retention scandal have criticised a doctor who admitted keeping organs of stillbirths without consent after 2000.

ONE of the country’s top maternity hospitals is trying to contact the parents of 138 dead children whose organs were kept without their knowledge between 2000 and 2007.

Dublin’s three maternity units should be shut down and relocated next to the capital’s main hospitals, it was claimed today.