Mum confident report will ensure child's death was not in vain 

The mother of one of the babies who died at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise is glad the dead children will never be forgotten because of the role they played in helping to improve services.

Shauna Keyes’ son, Joshua, died nearly an hour after being delivered by emergency C-section at the hospital in 2009.

Shauna said the report by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) on the child deaths in Portlaoise marked the end of her family’s five-and-a-half year battle on behalf of her son.