Mother gets baby back from care

A mother who challenged a decision to take her newborn baby into care shortly after he was born has been reunited with the infant.

This week the mother lost a High Court action against a district court ruling allowing the HSE to take the baby into emergency care when he was a day old.

At the High Court on Monday, Mr Justice Sean Ryan found the order allowing the HSE take the child into care for a period of eight days was valid and lawful.