Er...........?

One of those "where's the story?" stories.  A 20-some-odd year old pregnant woman is tragically killed, but is being kept alive artificially because her baby is still alive and apparently developing normally.  The fact that this is Ireland, and that Irish law requires it seems to me to be irrelevant. Unless there are things we are not being told, why on earth wouldn't you seek to save the baby?  I keep reading the story and thinking - am I missing something?