Siobhan Whelan

A Medical Council fitness to practice committee has halted an inquiry into a complaint by a woman who claimed a vaginal procedure carried out on her i(...)

Two midwives with Cavan General Hospital have told a Medical Council fitness to practice inquiry they would stop a doctor conducting a procedure on a (...)

A dispute over whether consent was given for intrusive procedures is the focus of a medical practice hearing involving a woman whose son died 17 hours(...)

Ireland will face further cases before the United Nations if it fails to change abortion laws, an Oireachtas committee has been advised. The committe(...)

The Government has paid €30,000 in compensation to a woman who travelled to the UK for an abortion after a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality. Sio(...)

If you only ever read the international headlines about this small, damp island of ours, you might be lulled into congratulating yourself for living i(...)

It feels as if Ireland would do anything other than allow women to hold their fate in their own hands. As a country we have ceded decisions about wome(...)

The United Nations again excoriates Ireland for failing to provide abortion to a woman whose baby had a fatal foetal abnormality; details emerge of a(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has stressed his desire to see a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution next year. Mr Harris (...)

Siobhán Whelan was in the 20th week of her second pregnancy in January 2010 when an ultrasound scan at Wexford General Hospital revealed her baby had (...)