On 28 November, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, Ruadh Kelly-Harrington, Marita Hennessy PhD and Professor Mary Donnelly (School of Law) briefed members of the Oireachtas on the findings of the PLACES Project.

We held a Stillbirth Webinar “Stillbirth Matters – Prevention, Investigation, Management, and Care Webinar⁠” in conjunction with the Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on 04 October 2023. 

On Wednesday, 01 March 2023, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and Dr Daniel Nuzum delivered a webinar titled “Recurrent Miscarriage and Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly: Current challenges and future directions” to members of the UCC Medical Graduates Association.

On 21 February 2023, Dr Laura Linehan presented at an online webinar on “Early Pregnancy Loss Care”, hosted by the Regional Centre for Nurse and Midwife Education HSE South (South East).

In January 2023, the National Women and Infants Programme (NWIHP) and Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) launched 12 updated Clinical Practice Guidelines in Obstetrics & Gynaecology.

In October 2022, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and Ms Riona Cotter of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group, and Ms Mairie Cregan, Chair and Co-Founder of Féileacáin delivered a joint presentation to the Oireachtas, titled ‘Pregnancy loss matters: Evidence & impact to inform policy & practice’.

In September 2022, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, Dr Daniel Nuzum and Marita Hennessy delivered an hour-long webinar to the Women's Health Taskforce titled ‘Recurrent Miscarriage Matters: Evidence to inform policy & practice’ based on findings from the RE:CURRENT Project.

We held a Recurrent Miscarriage Study Day in conjunction with the Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland on 27 May 2022. 

On 29 April 2022, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and Dr Deirdre Hayes Ryan participated in a study day webinar on Termination of Pregnancy, hosted by the Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

The second National Forum for the Implementation of National Standards for Bereavement Care Following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death was hosted at University College Cork on 02 March 2019.

On 26 April 2018, Minister Simon Harris opened the one-year progress meeting of the Implementation Programme for the National Standards for Bereavement Care Following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death in Croke Park. The day-long Forum brought together national and international experts along with healthcare professionals representing all 19 maternity hospitals to discuss the work of the implementation programme to date.

The pregnancy loss and research group hosted the annual meeting of the International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA) from 22-24 September 2017. Professor Keelin O'Donoghue chaired the organising committee for ISA Cork 2017, and led a multi-disciplinary team involving obstetricians, midwives, scientists, services users, perinatal pathologists, chaplains, educators and researchers and parents.

The Minister for Health, Mr Simon Harris, launched the National Standards for Bereavement Care following Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Death on 10 August 2016 at Farmleigh House, Dublin. These standards clearly define the care parents and families can expect to receive following a pregnancy loss or perinatal death.

The Pregnancy Loss Research Group hosted a one day conference for health professionals and parents at University College Cork on 02 November, 2013. Guest speakers, sponsored by Féileacáin, included Professor Ingela Rådestad, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, and Dr Alexander Heazell, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre & St. Mary’s Hospital.

On 14 October 2011, we held a study day titled ‘Recent Developments & New Initiatives in Pregnancy Loss’ at Cork University Maternity Hospital.