I’m giving birth as a battle rages over maternity care in Ireland. We shouldn’t have to pay to feel safe

Caelainn Hogan 31 Aug United Kingdom

An unfair two-tier system is, at last, giving way to universal state care. But private interests and highly paid doctors are resisting There were no chandeliers in the public ward where I spent my first days as a mother, at the oldest continuously operating maternity hospital in the world. The room echoed with cries, the well-worn floor bouncing under footsteps, the windows looking out on Dublin’s

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