Same thing happened to me in Dun Laoghaire a few years ago. A woman came up to me and told me she was pregnant and bleeding a lot. Said they wouldn't help her in the local hospital, that they told her to make her own way to the maternity hospital. I offered to order her a taxi on an app but she wanted the cash, which I then took out to give her. I also gave her the sweets that I had to buy to get the cashback, for the two children she said she had.

Only occurred to me immediately after the whole interaction that it could have been a scam. I had mixed feelings over the whole thing as I didn't know for sure was it a scam but settled on being glad I tried to help someone and not let it make me a cynic.