Take 5: Friday
Five things you need to know: the scramble to leave Libya, a war-time era shell in Wexford, and who’s getting to crush Seán Fitzpatrick’s BMW.
View ArticleDemand for public IVF treatment doubled in recession
Dublin’s only assisted birth centre that offers free treatment to medical card holders saw clients double since 2007.
View ArticleHospitals in new push backing Mater site for National Children’s Hospital
The Sisters of Mercy have reportedly offered to hand over the existing Mater hospital building to the State.
View ArticleMaternity hospital adds ability to benchmark performance internationally
The system is set to allow Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital gauge its performance against other hospitals in both Ireland and the UK.
View ArticleAbortion legislation should be ‘short, clear and not mention suicide’
Dr Sam Coulter-Smith, master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, says his profession would welcome the clarity and comfort that legislation will bring.
View ArticleMaternity unit and patient equipment at Tipperary hospital are unclean
The Health Information and Quality Authority has carried out inspections on five hospitals with South Tipperary General Hospital coming in for particularly strong criticism.
View ArticleShortage of midwives in every public maternity unit in Ireland
Portlaoise, Mullingar and the Rotunda have the biggest shortage of midwives.
View ArticleThe Rotunda’s fertility clinic has been sold off to an Australian company
The deal was worth a total of €6 million and the hospital wants to use its share towards new facilities.
View ArticleThis baby girl was delivered by Dublin firefighters this morning
Baby Eva’s parents will have a good story to tell her when she’s older.
View ArticleConsultant turned tap and pregnant woman told, ‘That’s the volume of blood...
Dil Wickremasinghe writes about how she was treated by doctors when she opted for a home birth.
View ArticleOver 100 twins saved by laser surgery while still in the womb
The procedure involves placing a tiny camera through the mother’s abdomen and into the womb.
View Article‘My biggest fear was delivering on the plane’: Mother whose labour caused an...
Jenny Drake and her now daughter Zoe Ireland are doing well.
View ArticleAbortion bill hasn’t led to more women “claiming suicidality” to get a...
Fears that this would happen have been proven unfounded.
View ArticleWarning of dating app dangers after increase in numbers at sexual assault unit
The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said there was a 36% increase in victims being accompanied to the unit in the Rotunda Hospital.
View Article'Lethal', 'insane' - cyclists have their say on what it's like dealing with...
Many people have complained to Transport Infrastructure Ireland regarding the sometimes-hazardous nature of cycling near Luas works.
View ArticleDublin maternity hospital chief says Irish abortion patient died while flying...
Fergal Malone revealed the woman’s death at yesterday’s hearing of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment.
View ArticleLong queues at Rotunda Hospital partly caused by new IT system
The hospital has received two complaints in relation to yesterday’s long waiting times.
View Article80 babies delivered at Holles St and Rotunda during storm ... including one Emma
No one has been called Beast or East though.
View Article'We have asked them to stop': Both sides in referendum condemn graphic...
The Irish Centre for Bioethical Reform conducted the displays at three Dublin maternity hospitals yesterday.
View Article'The little knitted octopuses worked brilliantly': How a Dublin knitting...
Eli and Ezra were born at 27 weeks and needed constant care – luckily they got some through the assistance of the Rotunda Knitters.
View ArticleTeenager who was 26 weeks pregnant thought she 'was getting chubby' before...
Milaois Murphy believed she had appendicitis on the night her daughter Harper was born.
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