‘All you are meeting are walls, barriers and lies’- Families of babies who died at Midlands Regional Hospital

The parents of one of the babies who died at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise said it was unfortunate it had taken so long for action to be taken.

Roisín and Mark Molloy had their fifth child, also named Mark, in the hospital’s maternity unit in January 2012. He died soon after being born due to lack of oxygen.

Mr Molloy said he was still very angry with the HSE. He said the family had been highlighting the issues about the maternity services at the most senior level in the HSE since 2012. “Be it through incompetence, arrogance, I don’t know, but they decided to ignore the facts that babies were dying and we were highlighting these concerns to them.”