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 ...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/31/ireland-maternity-care-birth-pay-safe-state-care)