Ash Ireland, the anti-smoking group, said it was surprised the Taoiseach had met the industry chiefs. Photograph: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been heavily criticised by the Opposition and anti-smoking campaigners for receiving a delegation of senior tobacco in(...)

Minister for Health James Reilly has blamed an “extraordinary winter” and the extended flu season for a “rebound” in hospital waiting lists. Bu(...)

Yet monitoring of air quality within the home is scant compared with the outdoor environment. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Striv(...)

So far, only eight graduate nurses have been employed under the controversial two-year contracts on lower pay offered by the Health Service Exe(...)

Dr James Reilly: says significant progress has been made in reducing waiting times and numbers on trolleys. Photograph: Eric Luke

The special delivery unit established by Minister for Health James Reilly to tackle waiting lists and the num(...)

Siobhán and Noel Carroll and their children, Eimhin, Sophie and Noah. Photograph: Martina Regan

AOIBHE was a new year baby, born at 12.06am on January 1st, 2004. Her photo was on the front page of the Connacht (...)

 Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food	Simon Coveney said his department had experienced an extremely busy period as a result of the horse meat crisis, talks on the Common Agricultural Policy and the recent fodder shortage. Photograph: Eric Luke

More than €700,000 has been paid out in overtime to ministerial staff such as personal assistants and secretaries(...)

 Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony  in the neoneathal ICU department of Holles Street. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

A thorny challenge for the Government got even thornier after the first day of the Oireachtas health committee’s hearings into its plans to legisla(...)

 Dr Sam Coulter Smyth: the master of the Rotunda Hospital said the inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination  posed major ethical dilemmas for obstetricians. Photograph: Eric Luke

The Government is likely to come under increased pressure to modify proposed legislation for abortion in cases of a threat of suicide after the mas(...)

 Minister of Health Dr James Reilly: left the committee hearing without taking questions. Photograph: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

Suicide risk will be included in abortion legislation because it would be impos(...)

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