A verdict of medical misadventure was returned at the inquest into the death of a woman whose uterus ruptured after she was medically induced at the Rotunda Hospital to deliver her stillborn baby.

The Master of Dublin's Rotunda Hospital has said that maternity units in Ireland have too few resources to practice mid-wife led care.

Doctors must be given the legal “flexibility” to decide when they should terminate the pregnancy of a woman at risk of suicide, the country’s most senior obstetrician has said.

The Master of the Rotunda Maternity Hospital has said that six pregnancies were terminated at the hospital last year, to save the life of the Mother.

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.

Ireland’s ambassador to India is attempting to ease concerns in the country over the death of a woman who was refused an abortion as she miscarried.

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 master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin has expressed his disappointment at the decision to build the new National Children's Hospital at St James Hospital.

The chief losers in the bid to build a new children’s hospital are extremely disappointed their site was overlooked in favour of a campus that does not have all the advantages the losing Mater site had to offer.

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

Representatives of three Dublin hospitals are to re-launch their plan to build the National Children's Hospital at the Mater site.

Masters of maternity hospitals have a duty of care to women being forced to travel for an abortion, it has been claimed today.

Plans to locate the proposed national children’s hospital at the Mater site in Dublin city centre could be resurrected after management at three hospitals in the area said they were puttingtogether a fresh proposal.

Ireland’s neonatal and maternal death rates have been a source of pride to the medical community in recent years.

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.

MATERNITY hospitals are to work with the HSE to accelerate the vaccination of expectant mothers against swine flu.

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.