The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin welcomed the first baby of 2015 last night.

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.

A psychiatric specialist has warned the Government that proposals to force potentially suicidal pregnant women to be assessed by six doctors are idiotic and a sick joke.

The High Court has today dismissed a medical negligence claim brought on behalf of a child with profound physical and mental difficulties against the National Maternity Hospital.

WOMEN who are undergoing chemotherapy or who want children but have not met a partner before the ageing process takes hold have been given a new option in fertility treatment through freezing their embryos.

The first ever charity single recorded using Twitter was launched in Dublin today.

A BABY boy died one week after his birth by emergency caesarean section following a failed forceps delivery at the National Maternity Hospital, an inquest has heard.

A HIGH COURT judge yesterday found that the HSE, the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street and a doctor were “grossly inept” in their treatment of a girl who suffered brain damage because of hydrocephalus, and ruled each should pay one third of the €4.75 million award previously made to the child.

THE High Court has approved an award of €2.35 million in damages to the family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth at a Dublin maternity hospital.

The High Court has approved an award of €2.35m in damages to the family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth at a Dublin maternity hospital.

THE High Court has struck out a petition seeking to have a construction company of developer Thomas McFeely wound up.

THE High Court has approved a €4.75 million award to young girl who suffered “devastating and permanent injuries” due to an alleged failure to treat her hydrocephalus, or water on the brain, in the weeks and months after she was born.

A NEWBORN baby boy died as a result of an “acute near-drowning incident” while being delivered in a birthing pool at Cavan General Hospital last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy who is seriously mentally and physically disabled due to alleged negligence during his birth at the National Maternity Hospital has begun an action for damages in the High Court.

LEON WEAFER was the first of 11 babies born in Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital on Christmas Day.

An infant who was infected with the MRSA superbug is reported to have died from an “underlying” illness.

AN OVERDUE pregnant woman who fears she will give birth for a second time in transit to a Dublin maternity hospital led a march yesterday in protest over the lack of maternity services in her area.

HUNDREDS of Irish women whose mothers were prescribed a drug aimed at preventing miscarriages face more than double the normal risk of breast cancer.