The Ombudsman for Children found nearly 7,700 babies may not have had their nine-to-11-month health check on time last year. A country that cherishes every child should make sure someone knocks on every door.

On 3 November the Southern Trust Board voted to stop births at Daisy Hill Hospital from 23 November. The Trust calls it temporary but has given no date for births to return. The numbers behind the decision are worth reading slowly.

The Pro Life Campaign has told the UN that no woman should feel compelled to end a pregnancy because of money, housing or childcare. Ireland's abortion numbers rose from 2,911 in 2018 to 10,600 in 2025.

A solicitor's wife died alone in a hospice during the pandemic. He now asks Ireland to legalise assisted dying. But what she asked for was company, comfort and home.

New HSE guidelines say almost 5% of women with severe pregnancy sickness end a wanted pregnancy because of their symptoms. They are asking for compassion, early treatment and real support for mother and baby.

Cork's Domino midwife scheme gave mothers the same few familiar faces from first check to first week home, until staff shortages pulled its midwives onto the labour ward. Today a petition of more than 2,500 names asks CUMH to bring it back in full.

At the Pro Life Campaign conference in Dublin, 22-year-old Philomena Tierney and others asked why women who used the three-day wait and continued their pregnancies were refused a hearing on Sinn Féin's bill to abolish it.

Thousands marched through Newry to save maternity services at Daisy Hill Hospital, where a plan would send women in labour an hour or more to Craigavon. On Tuesday, campaigners meet the Health Minister at Stormont.

A new Cork pathway, CP PROMPT, helps GPs spot early signs of cerebral palsy in babies under one and fast-tracks them to a specialist clinic, where therapy can start while tests are still going on.

High-risk pregnancy care left Portiuncula in July 2025. The reviews are almost done, yet the HSE has no plans to bring it back, and can't say where the women went.