A recent HSE audit recommended that no-one who lived more than 30 minutes’ blue light distance from a maternity unit should ...

Ireland's Birth and Information Tracing Act 2022 has been signed into law, providing right of access to birth certificates, birth, and early life information for all persons who were adopted, boarded ...

Three sisters all gave birth on Tuesday at the same hospital in Ireland, an event that the Irish press is calling “incredible and rare.” “We just never realized it would all happen on the one day,” ...

Almost two-thirds of babies were breastfed during their first hospital feed last year, according to new data showing an ...

You can get Irish citizenship if you have a grandparent born in Ireland, even if you've never lived there. With Irish citizenship, you can live and work in both the EU and the U.K., making the ...

Weaknesses in the governance of the current home birth system creates a risk for expectant mothers and their babies, ...

An Irish setter has given birth to 16 puppies, the same number of pups as the record Irish setter litter registered with the Kennel Club. Four-year-old Amelia, gave birth by cesarean at Seadown ...

Street art in Dublin in 2013 protests Ireland's system of adopting the babies of unmarried mothers from mother and baby homes, which were often run by Catholic nuns. The Birth and Information Tracing ...

For decades, Irish nuns ran homes for unwed mothers. Beneath one of them, a ghastly discovery: 796 babies buried in a septic ...