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 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.