Eighth baby born in ambulance since maternity unit shut

ANOTHER woman has given birth in an ambulance by the side of the road following the closure of the maternity unit at Monaghan General Hospital.

Happily, the young mother, a non-national, and her baby, are doing fine, but it is the eighth such birth since the tragic death of Bronagh Livingstone after being born prematurely in an ambulance three years ago.

The hospital’s maternity unit closed in 2001, and a year later 32-year-old Denise Livingstone was refused admission when she arrived at the hospital in the middle of the night in an advanced state of labour.