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Good news.  I was worried that she would be disheartened.  Please pass on our best wishes and thanks to her.
Rosemary

Alas, but she is indeed disheartened.

This is not the first time that we've lost access to Ros' Co. Down website (and likely not the last). While it is great to have a service like Rootsweb that offers to host web pages for free, users are left completely in the dark when outages such as the recent one occur. Then there is the question of the long-term viability of the service. Will Rootsweb suddenly stop hosting services for free, or just shutdown forever?

The data on Ros' website, built up over many years of meticulous and time-consuming work, is an invaluable resource for us Co. Down researchers that has no equal. It would be a real shame to lose it.

Thank you to everyone for your thoughtful replies (and to IMBER for confirming my suspicions... perhaps a change of meds would help  ?).

While I am quite well-informed about copyright infringement in general, I find the subject very murky when it comes to publishing a book of ones family history with images pertaining to things like BMD transcriptions (not reproduction of original certificates), census records, extracts from tithe applotment books, etc.

 Perhaps the clearest statement from a government agency I have found on this side of the pond comes from a Q&A in the publication "Reproduction of birth, death and marriage certificates" by the the National Archives (https://goo.gl/61h6J8).

Q. I want to publish some certificates in a book I’m writing. Can I do this and do I need to get anyone’s permission before I publish?
A: The layout of all certificates are protected by Crown Copyright, so if you are publishing these in a book or online publication you should acknowledge Crown Copyright (you don’t need to do this if you’re just placing them on Facebook or similar). You do not need to approach GRO or The National Archives for permission. But do bear in mind that if any of the certificates relate to living individuals you need to consider the Data Protection Act provisions above and make sure you have their permission to publish.

No mention of "commerical use". Does the same apply for other types of government records commonly used in family history (estate records, census returns, applotment books, Griffiths Valuation)? Does the Republic of Ireland have a different policy?

Using the links kindly provided by Sinann, I will write the government agencies directly and see what they have to say.

Thanks once again.

I see a lot of family history books published (and for sale) by genealogy hobbyists which include images of Irish census and BMD records. Are they violating UK copyright laws?

How do you know that Robert and John are sons of Rose Ann?

There is a Robert Flannigan born to a Dorethea Flannigan in Belfast - could this be a sister of Rose and the child her nephew and not her son?

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1906/01743/1688319.pdf

There is a Dorothy Flannigan without a child in the same area of Belfast in the 1901 Census

A possibility I suppose, or the two (Dorothy & Rose Ann) are cousins. Will see if I can find Dorothy's birth.