TWO BABIES born late last year in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe have died. Seven families in all have had their babies referred for “brain cooling” because of suspected “apoxia” — lack of oxygen to the brain — during their births at the hospital.

A student who was caught with drugs for sale or supply at an apartment when the property manager arrived with gardaí, challenged the case against him yesterday on the basis that it breached his constitutional right to the inviolability of his residence.

OXYTOCIN. Women’s love drug. The drug associated with her sexual pleasure, with bringing on her labour and bringing down her breast milk.