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Keelin O’Donoghue

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Obstetrician & MFM | Lead @ Pregnancy Loss Research Group | Professor, UCC | PI, INFANT | Lead, Guidelines @ NWIHP https://www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancyloss/ #PregnancyLoss #FetalMedicine #ReproductiveHealth #MedSky

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Tile with information about where various pregnancy loss (ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage) information booklets, clinical guidelines and multi-lingual videos can be found - each resource is listed, along with a QR code to access it. Details of the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Ireland website at the end (https://pregnancyandinfantloss.ie/) along with logos of the following: National Women and Infants Health Programme, Health Service Executive and the Pregnancy Loss Research Group

Tile with information about where various pregnancy loss (ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage) information booklets, clinical guidelines and multi-lingual videos can be found - each resource is listed, along with a QR code to access it. Details of the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Ireland website at the end (https://pregnancyandinfantloss.ie/) along with logos of the following: National Women and Infants Health Programme, Health Service Executive and the Pregnancy Loss Research Group

🧰 A quick reference guide to our current suite of #PregnancyLoss information resources - all available on the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Ireland Website: www.pregnancyandinfantloss.ie

👁️‍🗨️ More are under development & will be published in 2026

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social

23.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Appraisal of hydatidiform mole incidence and registration rates in Ireland following the establishment of a National Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Registry Aims This study aimed to re-evaluate the incidence of hydatidiform mole (HM) and determine gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) registration rates in Ireland following the establishment of the Nati...

📣 ICYMI: Now in print

📄 Appraisal of hydatidiform mole incidence & registration rates in Ireland following the establishment of a National Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Registry

✍️ @carolinemjoyce.bsky.social, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Brendan Fitzgerald et al

🔗 jcp.bmj.com/content/78/1...

20.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Really hope this is a commitment to implementing leave for people who experience pregnancy loss <23 weeks as per findings from the #PLRG_PLACESproject comissioned by the Department:

Strategy: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

PLACES Policy Brief: www.ucc.ie/en/media/res...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

18.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight infants from twin pregnancies in ireland: a national cohort analysis - Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) Introduction Twin pregnancies contribute disproportionately to neonatal morbidity and mortality, primarily due to preterm birth and very low birth weight (VLBW). While studies have yielded conflicting...

📄 Mortality and morbidity in very low birth weight infants from twin pregnancies in ireland: a national cohort analysis

✍️ @caroline-oconnor.bsky.social, Paul Corcoran, Anne Twomey, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Sara Leitao

🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#TheMilestoneStudy @researchireland.ie

18.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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PLRG @ the Association of Early Pregnancy Units Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

🗞 PLRG @ the Association of Early Pregnancy Units Annual Scientific Meeting 2025

🔗 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @niamhhj.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

#AEPU2025

17.11.2025 22:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Niamh Howard-Jones appointed Candidate Advanced Midwife Practitioner - Early Pregnancy Loss/Miscarriage Services at CUMH | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

We are delighted to announce that @niamhhj.bsky.social has been appointed Candidate Advanced Midwife Practitioner - Early Pregnancy Loss/Miscarriage Services @ Cork University Maternity Hospital

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @hselive.bsky.social @roinnslainte.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

12.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

On our way to Glasgow for #AEPU2025. Great programme ahead.

Check out talk by Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan on Friday on service users' experiences of Ireland 1st off-site early pregnancy unit & our e-posters on the conference platform!

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @niamhhj.bsky.social

12.11.2025 06:24 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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The emotional and real-life impacts of pregnancy loss under 23 weeks | Newstalk Pregnancy loss under 23 weeks is rarely spoken about, and in Ireland, it’s not even officially ...

🗣️ Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social & Jennie Cronin spoke with @antonsavage.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this morning about #PregnancyLoss <23 weeks

🎙️ Listen back: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/the...

ℹ️ Our work: www.ucc.ie/pregnancyloss

@ucc.ie @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

09.11.2025 16:03 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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OBGYN Objective To examine factors associated with perinatal mortality (PM) in women in minority ethnic groups (MEG) in Ireland and assess differences between them and their white counterparts. Design R.....

📣 ICYMI: Now in issue

🆕📄 Ethnic Disparities in Perinatal Mortality & Associated Factors: A Nationwide Cohort Study

✍️ Laura Robinson, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social, Sara Leitao

🔗 obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@bjog.bsky.social @npec-ucc.bsky.social @isastillbirth.bsky.social

07.11.2025 07:23 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The role of a workplace in dealing with pregnancy loss University College Cork has become the first Irish university to introduce paid leave to employees who have experienced pregnancy loss. It follows extensive work carried out by the university’s Pregn...

🎙️ Listen Back | The role of a workplace in dealing with pregnancy loss

🗣️ @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social speaking with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social

🔗 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/the...

#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

04.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

View/download our free toolkit for workplaces & book #PLRG_WordsAtWork here: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#PLRG_PLACESproject #PregnancyLoss #Work

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social @newstalkfm.bsky.social

04.11.2025 15:22 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces The Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork has developed a range of resources to help create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss. We encourage work...

Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces | @activelink.bsky.social

www.activelink.ie/community-ex...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social

#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work

03.11.2025 09:59 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Workplaces have a role in dealing with pregnancy loss Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor Keelin O’Donoghue

Recognising pregnancy loss as a workplace issue and in working lives is essential, writes Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

30.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Miscarriage care in Scotland: delivery framework The Delivery Framework for Miscarriage Care in Scotland outlines a plan for introducing a graded model of miscarriage care. The Framework sets out 34 actions to help NHS Boards prioritise change local...

Miscarriage Care in Scotland: Delivery Framework (Sept 2025)

Includes graded model of care-ensuring people receive support following their first miscarriage (as advocated for in our #ReCurrentStudy #PolicyBrief: www.ucc.ie/en/media/res...)

www.gov.scot/publications...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

29.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Make Work Pay: leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss We are seeking views on the details of a new entitlement to bereavement leave, including for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks.

UK | Open consultation - Make Work Pay: leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject

23.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Lord Mayor of Cork launches pregnancy loss guide for workplaces Prof Keelin O’Donoghue, a consultant obstetrician at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) said there is a significant gap between the needs of ...

🗞️ Lord Mayor of Cork launches pregnancy loss guide for workplaces

🔗 www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

🧰 www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie @echolive.bsky.social

#PLRG_PLACESproject

20.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Maternal risk stratification and planned birth improve pregnancy outcomes at term: A population-based cohort study. In many countries antenatal maternal risk stratification and individualization of subsequent pregnancy care is ubiquitous. However, because of the dyn…

Maternal risk stratification and planned birth improve pregnancy outcomes at term: A population-based cohort study.

Cynthia Wong, Kylie Crawford, Jesrine Hong, Shannyn Rosser, Vicki Flenady, Susannah Leisher, Robert Silver, Sailesh Kumar

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

20.10.2025 06:55 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Compassion matters when supporting pregnancy loss | Cork Independent It’s a subject rarely spoken about at work — yet one that affects many people.

Compassion matters when supporting pregnancy loss

www.corkindependent.com/2025/10/15/c...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @ucc.ie @infantcentreucc.bsky.social

#PLRG_PLACESproject

15.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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College of Medicine and Health 2025 Research Conference: Academic Health Sciences System | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

ICYMI | College of Medicine and Health 2025 Research Conference: Academic Health Sciences System

PLRG well-represented, with 10 presentations & 14 members attending

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

15.10.2025 16:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Researchers in Cork launch new resources to support women through pregnancy loss Researchers in Cork have launched new resources aimed at supporting women who experience pregnancy loss. EMER HARRINGTON speaks with Prof Keelin ...

🗞️ Researchers in Cork have launched new resources aimed at supporting women who experience pregnancy loss

🗣️ Emer Harrington speaks with Prof @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social & Tara Woulfe about how loss can impact women in the workplace

🔗 www.echolive.ie/wow/arid-417...

@ucc.ie #PLRG_PLACESproject

15.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Tile with details of PLRG presentations (1 short oral presentation, 9 poster presentations) at the AEPU 2025 Conference. QR code to PLRG Website. Profile photos of Prof Keelin O'Donoghue, Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan & Niamh Howard-Jones who are attending the conference.

Tile with details of PLRG presentations (1 short oral presentation, 9 poster presentations) at the AEPU 2025 Conference. QR code to PLRG Website. Profile photos of Prof Keelin O'Donoghue, Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan & Niamh Howard-Jones who are attending the conference.

We're attending the Association of Early Pregnancy Units Annual Scientific Meeting in Glasgow next month - say hi if you're there

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @niamhhj.bsky.social

#Miscarriage #RecurrentMiscarriage #EctopicPregnancy #EarlyPregnancy #PregnancyLoss #AbortionCare #AEPU2025

14.10.2025 22:16 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Miscarriage Clare tells John about her experience of miscarriage and the sensitivities around being informed.

Listen back: @quiteclare.bsky.social spoke with John Cooke on RTE Radio 1 Liveline yesterday

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Ping #PLRG_PLACESproject #Miscarriage #RecurrentMiscarriage #MiscarriageLeave #ReCurrentStudy

14.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Dying, death and doctors-in-training: survey Objectives Approximately 50% of deaths occur in acute hospitals, and doctors-in-training (DITs) regularly encounter death in many forms and settings. Despite this frequent exposure to death and dying,...

Our latest publication
A key area in how we train & support doctors in end of life care.
67% felt inadequately trained
69% felt inadequately supported
These data provide impetus for change & will directly improve patient care
@seamusoreilly.bsky.social

spcare.bmj.com/content/earl...

14.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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UCC launches Irelands first Pregnancy Loss Support Policy for University staff | University College Cork Discover the latest impact of University College Cork with news and views from our leading research experts, our students and our graduates

UCC launches Irelands first Pregnancy Loss Support Policy for University staff 💜

www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @joh2024.bsky.social @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccalumni.bsky.social

13.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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One in Four Pregnancies End in Loss - The Hidden Truth In The Workplace | Cork's 96fm Opinion Line

💜 Professor @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social spoke with PJ Coogan on The Opinion Line-Cork's 96FM earlier today about how we can better support workers who experience pregnancy loss

🎙️ Listen back via shows.acast.com/corks-96-fm-...

🧰 Workplace resources www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#PLRG_PLACESproject

13.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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OBGYN Objective To conduct a pilot study evaluating the acceptability of pregnancy loss nomenclature among people with recent lived experience and make recommendations for UK mass communication. Design ...

Acceptable Nomenclature for Pregnancy Loss Care: A Cross-Sectional Observational Survey

@bethmalory.bsky.social, Louise Nuttall, Alexander Heazell @mcr-sb-research.bsky.social

obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@bjog.bsky.social

12.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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New national resources launched to create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Last night we launched two new resources:

🧰 Pregnancy Loss & the Workplace: A Toolkit for Employers & Employees

📖 Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

Available on our website-please share & use 🙏

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

10.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Clare Moriarty: Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research? I remember a doctor discussing the “challenging” recovery that follows a Caesarean, as though launching a human skull through the birth canal was mere lady stuff

Why are women still treated as a statistical anomaly in health research?

@quiteclare.bsky.social

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

10.10.2025 06:21 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Abstract image of two black pencil-drawn circles on white background with black text Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

Abstract image of two black pencil-drawn circles on white background with black text Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}

Tonight in City Hall, Cork we published "Words at Work"

Each text in the book is a direct quotation from a person with experience of pregnancy loss who participated in the PLACES Project
www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social #PLRG_WordsAtWork

09.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Listen Back: One woman’s story of isolation through her miscarriage - @quiteclare.bsky.social speaks with Shane Coleman on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast

link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGS8Lr5DLXNx

09.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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