Frontline Workers: 'We work through storms, Christmas, everything, 24/7 so a pandemic is no different'

Kate Lyons, midwife at Cork University Maternity Hospital CUMH

“As a midwife, you experience evolution right in front of your eyes, helping someone make that transition to parenthood," said Kate Lyons, Midwife Manager at the Labour Ward in Cork University Maternity Hospital.

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted maternity wards nationally, separating pregnant women and newly delivered babies from their families but Ms Lyons said that midwives are still there to 'hold women's hands' through it all.