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Ireland's birth rate is at an all time low!

With a fertility rate just short of 1.5 per woman, Ireland is in the eye of the storm of a near f...

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08.45 11 Mar 2026


Ireland's birth rate is at an all time low!


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With a fertility rate just short of 1.5 per woman, Ireland is in the eye of the storm of a near fertility crisis.  

Professor Rhona Mahony Holles Street, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and former Master of National Maternity Hospital Joined Anton today to understand why people are having less children.


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