HSE apologises to parents over failings in care of 'longed-for first-born baby' who died in her mother's arms

"Instead of calling loved ones telling them our much anticipated and longed for firstborn had arrived, we had to impart the devastating news that our baby was dead."

The HSE has given an unreserved apology to the parents of a baby girl who was born at a Kilkenny hospital and later died for failings in her care at the time of her birth.

Little Ali Dowling Crowe who was brain damaged died in the arms of her mother two weeks after her birth four years ago.