The Health Information Quality Authority (Hiqa) report is an appalling indictment of the failure to implement a safe infrastructure over a number of years. The authority emphasised that the medics missed 13 chances to save the life of Savita Halappanavar.

The Health Service Executive said they fully accept that a failure in clinical judgement caused the death of Savita Halappanavar.

Savita Halappanavar might be alive if Ireland’s maternity services had not failed to implement recommendations after a “disturbingly” similar death in 2007, a report has claimed.

Ireland’s health watchdog has warned it cannot stand over claims the country’s maternity service is safe after Savita Halappanavar’s death.

THE family of a young garda who died after giving birth to twins will be able to buy a life-saving incubator for other babies thanks to a charity sports fundraiser by her colleagues.

The HSE and a consultant obstetrician have expressed sincere regret to the family of Garda Sergeant Tanya McCabe, who died following an emergency caesarean section.

CHANGES were made to the internal report into the death during childbirth of Garda Tania McCabe and her baby at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital two years ago after the manager of the HSE’s acute hospitals in the North East said he had “issues” with “nuances” in it.

The inquest into the deaths of Tania McCabe and one of her newborn twin sons is due to open in Ardee in Co. Louth this morning.

A FORMER master of Dublin’s Holles Street Maternity Hospital has said he has “given up” on politicians’ initiative and imagination.

THE Health Service Executive last night published a report into the deaths of Tania McCabe and her newborn son Zach at Our Lady of Lourdes Drogheda in March 2007.

THE night Tania McCabe and one of her newborn twins died was one that staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda must wish they could forget.

THE father-in-law of Tania McCabe, the young mother who died in childbirth along with one of her twin boys last year, has said he hopes the inquiry into their deaths will result in extra staff being provided to the hospital where they died.

The Labour Party is calling on Health Minister Mary Harney to apologise to the family of Tania McCabe.

An inquiry into the death of a woman after she gave birth to twins last year has reportedly criticised Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda over its handling of her care.