Bereaved parents have accused the HSE of covering up warning signs in relation to baby deaths at Portlaoise Hospital.

The mother of one of the babies who died at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise is glad the dead children will never be forgotten because of the role they played in helping to improve services.

Parents hope he will be seen as ‘catalyst for change’ in HSE

I RETURN to the wines of Spain again this week which I realise is starting to become a bit of a habit.

An especially distressing finding of the report was that highlighted by Dr Tony Holohan where dead babies were transported in the boot of a taxi to Tullamore hospital for postmortem.

Fines totalling €250,000 have been imposed on two companies and suspended prison sentences on two men arising out of the death of a young father of one on a Bray building site.