Three maternity hospitals to be rebuilt in Dublin

Overcrowding the main issue behind plan as ministers deny relocations are a political stroke.

Three of the country’s major maternity hospitals are to be rebuilt on new sites in Dublin to make them safer for mothers and babies.

The Rotunda, the National Maternity Hospital, and the Coombe, where about 40% of the country’s babies are born, have all been complaining of overcrowding.