# maternity - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
All six babies are healthy.
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# maternity - Tuesday 29 January, 2019
Midwives didn’t pick the job for the money, but they want their skills to get the same recognition as other healthcare professionals, Maeve Gaynor writes.
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# maternity - Wednesday 23 January, 2019
# maternity - Monday 31 December, 2018
The Health Minister called her “a leading voices for women’s rights”.
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# maternity - Thursday 21 June, 2018
Jacinda Ardern becomes just the second world leader to give birth while in office.
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# maternity - Thursday 22 March, 2018
We spoke to England international Rachael Burford about some of the key issues in women’s rugby.
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# maternity - Monday 29 January, 2018
The National Maternity Hospital says it is open to another review, but not of the type proposed by the minister.
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# maternity - Wednesday 1 November, 2017
The number of teenage mothers has fallen by 50% between 2005 and 2015.
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# maternity - Sunday 24 September, 2017
Half of the complaints were about staff behaviour and three were about the care received.
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# maternity - Monday 10 July, 2017
Just 7% of all surgeons in Ireland are women.
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# maternity - Tuesday 23 May, 2017
Health Minister Simon Harris said it is ‘regretted’ that it took such a long time for families to be heard on their babies’ deaths.
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# maternity - Monday 1 May, 2017
Minister Simon Harris has said that a public ownership option is possible for the hospital.
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# maternity - Sunday 30 April, 2017
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is seeking his own removal as chair of Holles Street.
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# maternity - Sunday 23 April, 2017
Health Minister Simon Harris has insisted the hospital will be independently run.
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# maternity - Saturday 22 April, 2017
Addressing doctors today, Minister Harris sought to provide assurances on the project.
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# maternity - Thursday 20 April, 2017
It was claimed that 300 people attended today’s lunchtime protest outside the Department of Health.
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Dr. Peter Boylan says the minister must quiz the Sisters of Charity.
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# maternity - Wednesday 19 April, 2017
The Department of Health has insisted the new hospital will be independently run.
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# maternity - Monday 26 December, 2016
Little Sean Kelly-Murray was the first to arrive.
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# maternity - Wednesday 16 November, 2016
The operating theatres, staff facilities and the storage of sterile supplies were all criticised.
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# maternity - Wednesday 10 August, 2016
Electrical fires are common in the Iraqi capital and elsewhere across the country because of shoddy maintenance and poor wiring.
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# maternity - Thursday 17 March, 2016
A new report into maternity services says there are a number of reasons.
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# maternity - Thursday 3 December, 2015
Babies of mothers who gain more than 11kg between pregnancies have about a 50% greater risk of their baby dying in the first four weeks of life.
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# maternity - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
Dil Wickremasinghe writes about how she was treated by doctors when she opted for a home birth.
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# maternity - Tuesday 18 August, 2015
You can live without sleep, but you cannot live without coffee, writes Claire Micks.
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# maternity - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
Planning permission for three new sites at major adult teaching hospitals will be submitted in the next 18 months.
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# maternity - Sunday 28 June, 2015
There has been a 36% increase in the number of twins born in Ireland over the period of a decade.
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# maternity - Monday 22 June, 2015
Parents’ concerns were addressed in only a minority of maternity cases assessed in a new HSE review.
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# maternity - Friday 19 June, 2015
The employee says the insurance company said ‘bring it on’ when she said she would go to the Equality Tribunal.
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# maternity - Friday 12 June, 2015
One woman’s diagnosis of septicaemia was missed.
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# maternity - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
The woman had fragments of her ovary frozen before undergoing chemotherapy at the age of 14.
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# maternity - Wednesday 3 June, 2015
The news that complex surgery will no longer be performed at Portlaoise follows last month’s highly critical HIQA report into the standard of care at the hospital.
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# maternity - Sunday 24 May, 2015
Maternity staff are being asked to deal with far, far more births than they can safely handle in hospitals up and down the country.
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# maternity - Sunday 17 May, 2015
The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has spoken out about the findings in HIQA’s report on the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.
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# maternity - Thursday 14 May, 2015
The Minister for Health met with bereaved parents last night to hear their stories.
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# maternity - Wednesday 13 May, 2015
The newborn baby died at the maternity unit in the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
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# maternity - Sunday 19 April, 2015
“You’re waiting for the cry and it doesn’t arrive.”
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# maternity - Wednesday 8 April, 2015
Dil Wickremasinghe, since she has become pregnant, has found the maternity system is fraught with fear and discourages women from making decisions about the birthing process.
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# maternity - Thursday 12 February, 2015
Lorraine and Warren Reilly asked that the deaths of their two girls be considered in he current HSE review of maternity services.
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# maternity - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
Last night Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said he was confident this provision would be included in the Family Leave Bill.
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