'You hear what is happening in Portiuncula, and it just takes you right back to your own trauma'

Lorraine Reilly at her home in Loughrea, Co Galway. Her daughter Asha was stillborn at Portiuncula in 2008. Her daughter Amber died six days after being born at the Galway hospital in 2010. Picture: Ray Ryan

When news broke the HSE was investigating baby births in Portiuncula University Hospital, Lorraine Reilly was among a group of mothers who froze in their tracks.

As someone whose experience of maternity services left her suffering from PTSD, she says the news re-traumatised her.