More concerns have been raised about maternity services in this country, following an investigation by RTÉ's Prime Time.

An episode aired on June 11 provided details of three cases where serious incidents occurred, yet no incident report was ever recorded.

The programme comes only a month after a highly critical report about maternity services at Portlaoise Hospital was published by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) - see more on that report here.

According to one of the cases featured on Prime Time, one mother became sick after giving birth to her second child in Cavan General Hospital.

She was discharged from hospital despite the fact that she was in so much pain, she needed a wheelchair. Her husband had also remarked on a severe small, which he likened to gangrene.

That night, she was in such agony, an ambulance had to be called and she was brought to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda where she was diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening infection, septicaemia.

Both the woman's doctor in Drogheda and her husband repeatedly tried to contact Cavan General Hospital about the case, but to no avail. The woman eventually received a phone call from a hospital representative six months after the birth of her son, during which she was told she was fine leaving the hospital.

The programme also revealed that figures from the State Claims Agency show that in 2014, there were 67 ‘extreme incidents' in maternity hospitals nationwide, which led to permanent incapacity or death.

There were also three ‘major' cases, which led to long-term disability and over 1,200 moderate incidents which required medical treatment.