Numbers travelling for donor egg fertility treatment up by 50%

Fertility specialists here have seen a 50% increase over the past five years in the number of couples travelling abroad for donor egg treatment.

Every year more than 1,000 Irish couples undergo donor egg treatment, mainly due to the increase in the number of women waiting longer to have treatment.

In 2006 the Irish-owned Waterstone Clinic, previously known as the Cork Fertility Clinic, was the first clinic in Ireland to commence an in-house egg donation programme.