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# Maternity services

All time
Pregnant woman couldn't avail of maternity care because she was registered as a man by the State
18 Jul 2021
68.0k
Every Irish hospital to follow the same rules over maternity access by the end of the day, Donnelly says
21 Jun 2021
28.0k
14
Rally held to call for an end to Covid-19 restriction that stops women's partners attending births
15 Dec 2020
17.3k
36
HSE to allow partners of pregnant women to attend 20-week scan
9 Dec 2020
16.7k
23
Opinion: 'For most women in rural Ireland there is no choice of maternity services'
Dr Krysia Lynch
22 Aug 2020
28.3k
16
Q&A: Here's where Ireland's parties stand on women's healthcare ahead of the election
7 Feb 2020
7.8k
26
HSE apologises to women callers to Joe Duffy's Liveline who shared their traumatic childbirth experiences
Updated 11 Apr 2019
62.1k
100
Portiuncula Hospital review found 'serious management errors' made in cases of 10 babies
3 May 2018
12.4k
31
Long queues at Rotunda Hospital partly caused by new IT system
20 Dec 2017
17.1k
12
'This is not an abortion referendum, we need to stop calling it one'
Emily McElarney
27 Sep 2017
19.1k
232
Harris asks for a month to consider all options for ownership of maternity hospital
1 May 2017
10.4k
138
Accused of being 'hapless, helpless and hopeless', Harris wants 'cool heads' on maternity hospital
22 Apr 2017
16.5k
117
Health Minister: 'I have heard people say that nuns will be running the hospital. Not true'
20 Apr 2017
19.8k
165
Ex-hospital master to Simon Harris: 'Ask nuns about their plans for €300m hospital'
20 Apr 2017
62.2k
127
'Left to die alone': Premature baby spent final two hours in hospital sluice room
24 Nov 2016
42.4k
149
Woman gives birth to baby that doctors told her had been dead for weeks
9 Jun 2015
30.9k
36
Varadkar 'ashamed' of patient treatment at Portlaoise hospital
14 May 2015
18.8k
61
'Ireland over-medicalises birth - and it is terrifying mothers-to-be'
Dil Wickremasinghe
8 Apr 2015
3.3k
133
'I was just 27 and I was butchered': Symphysiotomy survivors in their own words
6 Nov 2014
290k
82
€34 million redress scheme for Irish women whose pelvises were broken during childbirth
1 Jul 2014
8.5k
15
Taoiseach says Ireland is 'one of the safest places on the planet' to have a baby
24 Jun 2014
15.4k
84
James Reilly denies there was conflict of interest in maternity services review
30 May 2014
7.9k
24
Hospital staff warned not to reveal 'maternity unit closure until after elections', TD claims
15 May 2014
25.4k
126
Symphysiotomy victims tell the UN about cruel and barbaric childbirth operations
11 Mar 2014
15.0k
19
Column: New HSE plans will further limit women’s choices in childbirth
Eva-Louise Goussot
18 Mar 2013
167
155