The Master of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital acted out of concern for both patients and the reputation of Irish maternity services when he wrote to health officials warning about the growing trend of women diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities returning to Ireland to give birth to stillborn babies after undergoing a partial abortion procedure in the UK.

Victims of serious health service flaws are being blocked from receiving justice by a courts system that is prohibitively costly for most — and deliberately “intimidates” the few who do take cases. 

The recent inquest in Sligo into the tragic death of Dhara Kivlehan has focused attention again on shortfalls in the provision of intensive care beds in Ireland.

The husband of a woman who died after giving birth at Sligo General Hospital four years ago has appealed to the Health Minister to ensure that the recommendations from the inquest into her death are implemented in full.

A first-time mother who died a week after an emergency Caesarean section died in medical misadventure, an inquest jury has found.

An inquest jury has been told to return either a narrative verdict or medical misadventure over the death of a first-time mother from multi-organ failure days after an emergency caesarean section.

The jury in the inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan have returned a verdict of death by medical misadventure accompanied by four recommendations.

The country's leading expert in maternity care says if Dhara Kivlehan was transferred earlier to a centre of excellence the outcome in her case "may have been different".

The jury is expected to deliver a verdict later today in the inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan.

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

A senior doctor has apologised over a heated conversation he had with the husband of a new mother as her condition deteriorated following an emergency Caesarean section.

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

Dhara Kivlehan was given a photograph of her newborn baby Dior just before she was transferred from Sligo Regional Hospital to Belfast four days before her death, an inquest heard yesterday.

A Belfast consultant claims there was still a small chance that Dhara Kivlehan could have been saved when she was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital.

A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

No intensive care bed could be found in four Irish hospitals for a young mother as she lay at “death’s door” days after an emergency Caesarean section, the inquest into her death has heard.

The inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan has heard that she was in renal failure in Sligo General Hospital, up to six days before her death in September 2010.

A widower whose wife died days after giving birth has told an inquest into her death he has lost the light of his life.

A widower whose wife died days after giving birth has told an inquest into her death he has lost the light of his life.

A Belfast pathologist has confirmed that Dhara Kivlehan died of multiple organ failure against a background of a rare syndrome, HELLP.

An inquest is to get underway in Co Leitrim today into the death of Dhara Kivlehan, who died in 2010 four days after giving birth at Sligo General Hospital.

A coroner has bowed to pressure and offered to almost treble the number of witnesses for an inquest into the death of a woman who died days after giving birth.

Lawyers for Michael Kivlehan told the coroner’s court that "if there’s an attempt to truncate the inquest or reduce it to a level that does not meet these requirements, the Kivlehans will be unhappy and take their unhappiness elsewhere".

The widower of an Indian woman who died four days after giving birth to her son has alleged a cover-up over plans for a long-awaited inquest into her death.

The depths of Irish motherhood was underlined at the opening of an inquest into the death of a 29-year-old woman who died after she gave birth to her first baby in Sligo.

Controversial last-minute settlements of high-profile medical negligence cases highlight the need for an early mediation process, according to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

The solicitor for the family of Dhara Kivlehan says any inquest into her death in the North would be hollow, as it may not have the co-operation of the doctors involved.

The HSE has agreed to pay €790,000 and “unreservedly” apologised to the family of a 29-year-old Indian woman who became seriously ill in Sligo Regional Hospital at the time of the birth of her first child, but died eight days later.

The heartbroken family of an Indian woman who died eight days after she became seriously ill at Sligo General Hospital at the time of the birth of her first baby yesterday vowed to continue their legal battle to have an inquest.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost one million euro in damages from health chiefs.

The family of an Indian woman who died a week after giving birth to her first child has been awarded almost €1m in damages from health chiefs.

A husband has demanded an inquest into the death of his wife who lost her life after giving birth to their first child.