Ms Róisín Molloy:

I have been told that it is normal in such situations for people to go into shock and that, when grieving, people can be stunned into silence. Unfortunately for the HSE, I went in the opposite direction and became the crazy mother telling everybody that my child had died when he should not have died and highlighting safety concerns in regard to the maternity unit at Portlaoise hospital. People then started sharing their stories with me. Baby deaths is not an issue that, I believe, people like to talk about. Neither Mark nor I would have talked about it. It is an issue people are not happy to talk about. However, when I started talking about it, it became apparent that there were other people in our local area who had not only experienced deaths at the hospital but had had very horrific experiences there and were treated similarly to us.

On the issue of baby deaths, we became familiar with two local people who had had a similar experience to ours, whose experiences are not in the public domain. I then heard the interview on the radio with Joshua Keyes' mother, Shauna, following which, when doing research into how I could have baby Mark's death investigated I came across a paper in the UK on Nathan Molyneaux's death. At that point, we knew that we were not on our own.