Mountain gem with ski lodge feel

This unique four-bed perched on the slopes of the Dublin mountains is on nearly two acres and, though dated, boasts a clever layout and magnificent views

One glass of wine can stop foetus breathing, study claims

Foetuses observed to stop moving or breathing for hours after small alcohol measures

Rotunda likely to move to west Dublin site

Co-locating with Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown is forecast outcome of review

Quintuplets make sure Wexford couple get their five-a-day

Cassidy children return to Rotunda to celebrate with medical staff who delivered them

‘Little progress’ in maternity sector despite Halappanavar

Report by Sam Coulter Smith criticises failure of HSE to implement recommendations

Freezing women's eggs interesting 'benefit in kind'

Apple and Facebook move to pay to freeze women's eggs is raising eyebrows.

Stillbirths here after fatal foetal abnormality abortions cause alarm

Growing trend for women to seek terminations but returning home for stillbirths

HSE asks for report into facts surrounding latest case

Woman was refused an abortion and subsequently had her child delivered by Caesarean section

The case for repealing the Eighth Amendment

HSE to review care given to woman in abortion case

Tony O’Brien wants to ‘establish full facts and sequence of events’

Abortion referendum will be matter for next government

Analysis: Fine Gael appears not to want to return to the issue under any circumstances

Public hospitals to feel pressure of extra deliveries

Reilly says falling birth rate means demand on existing services not excessive

Reilly warns Vincent’s of 'serious consequences' over top-ups

Minister was speaking after hospital declined to provide details of allowances to senior staff

St Vincent’s refuses to provide allowance details for senior staff

HSE audit into top-up payments shows senior staff in 13 hospitals received extra pay

Many questions remain to be answered on top-up payments in the health sector

Public Accounts Committee likely to quiz hospital boards about payments

Crumlin and Rotunda fundraising bodies say no money is spent on executive salaries

The charitable arms of both hospitals have sought to reassure the public about giving

Hospitals refuse to divulge source of payments

Queries to three maternity hospitals go unanswered

Rotunda hospital moves to stub out smoking on grounds

Sledgehammer and fork-lift used to destroy shelter at Dublin maternity facility

HSE considers cuts to €350m capital plan

Move part of plans for reducing expenditure by €666 million next year

Rotunda warns of patient safety risk

Maternity hospital has repeatedly notified HSE over ‘unsustainable’ levels of activity

First abortion carried out under new legislation

National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street terminated unviable pregnancy at 18 weeks

Pregnant women fare better under midwife-led care - study

Women at both low and high risk of complications examined in research involving NUI Galway

Abortion law: what comes next?

The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill has passed through the Oireachtas, but the scope of the legislation is likely to be challenged

The pill problem

Many women in Ireland are using medication to induce abortion, but the tablets are not always safe. Would the proposed Protection of Life During Pregnancy law put women in even greater danger?

Coalition turning deaf ear to opponents of abortion legislation

Opinion: the Government needs to step back and reconsider its plans

Time limit a key issue arising from health committee hearings on abortion

Opinion: Government must provide unambiguous answer to question raised by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin

Spectre of suicide haunts proceedings and is set for return

It wasn’t long before sparks started to fly as tempers frayed

Government likely to face pressure to modify draft abortion Bill

Master of Rotunda Hospital says inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination not evidence-based

Safe delivery of twins 87 days apart is ‘truly extraordinary’, says Master of Rotunda

Delivery of first twin 23 weeks premature ‘right at the absolute border of viability’

Irish obstetricians have heavier workload

Consultants deliver more than twice as many babies as counterparts in Scotland

Rotunda master says abortion plan is ‘totally impractical’

Dr Sam Coulter Smith says doctors already under ‘huge strain’ as psychiatrists say they will not be ‘social policemen’

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