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Michelle McDonagh

Michelle McDonagh

Michelle McDonagh is an award-winning freelance journalist who has been contributing news and feature articles to The Irish Times for nearly 15 years. She specialises in the areas of health and parenting and is a frequent contributor to Health+Family. She has also covered general news and courts as well as general and business features in the past.

Image from the Government’s consultation document on Money Follows the Patient, which illustrates the model that is going to be introduced.
Hospitals set for funding overhaul

The new funding model will support the move to a single-tier health insurance system, advocates say

The environment at the heart of health and wellbeing

A new centre at NUI Galway is based on a recognition of the dependence of health on the world around us

University of Limerick study looks at applying sports nutrition ideas to older adults

An angel at my table

Health Experience: Angelman Syndrome has cognitive, motor and epileptic aspects. There is still much to learn about it

Jack Kirwan, who is now studying arts at University College Dublin. “I am beginning a new chapter in my life,” he says of his struggle with depression. Photograph: David Sleator
One young man’s experience of depression

‘My life looked perfect , but if anyone had tried to walk in my shoes, it was a different story’

Planning pregnancy with diabetes

Studies show women who have diabetes and engage in pre-pregnancy care are at lower risk of complications

Time out: the average “migraineur” misses between 1.5 and 4.5 days of work each year. Photograph: Getty
A hypnotising alternative online treatment for migraine

Most-common headache disorder affects 12-15 per cent of Irish people

Kenny accused of reneging on Galway Hospice funding promise

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of reneging on a promise he made over a year ago to bridge the funding gap at the Galway…

Under pressure to have a merry Christmas

For people with a history of depression, anxiety or addiction, the festive season can be a difficult time

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