Costs of cancer: ‘I wondered could I put diesel in the car, pay for groceries’

Patients per month spend €765 and lose €1500 income due to diagnosis, report finds

Report calls for needs of 200,000 cancer survivors to be prioritised

Minister acknowledges need for resources to support growing numbers living after cancer

Government must reduce ‘huge financial strain’ on cancer patients

Irish Cancer Society says patients and families are ‘under siege’ in budget submission

Access to cancer drugs for private patients ‘incredibly unfair’

Consultant oncologist says inequity between public and private healthcare ‘very troubling’

Number of people with cancer to double by 2045 if rates continue

Report says rise could be contained to 50% if recent trends including screening continue

People urged to donate to Daffodil Day online after rain showers

Irish Cancer Society fears repeat of 2013 when snow, ice and rain hit fundraising drive

HPV campaigner Laura Brennan’s life-saving work

Uptake of HPV vaccine among teenage girls now at 70% due to advocate’s campaigning

Two out of five sunbed operators fail to ask for proof of age – survey

Mystery shopper exercise showed one in three did not refuse to book minors

Irish Cancer Society on track to spend €30m on research in a decade

Charity says more than €2.3m will be invested in 100 researchers across State this year

Irish Cancer Society calls for national screening programme

Lung cancer claims the lives of 1,800 people in Ireland every year

Miriam Lord: TDs fume over golden tickets to Varadkar’s birthday do

WhatsApp group causes commotion in Cabinet as invitations to Taoiseach’s bash prove scarce

‘There was bonkers stuff. I was told negative energy contributed to my cancer’

Bill to regulate advertisement of so-called alternative treatments introduced in Dáil

Cancer now the biggest killer of Irish people, ahead of heart disease

Cases to double in next 30 years as population ages, says National Cancer Registry

Laois woman leaves €30m windfall to five charities in her will

Property and newspaper owner Elizabeth O’Kelly(92) gives Irish Cancer Society €6m

More than 50 TDs including seven Ministers lobbied by drinks industry on alcohol Bill

Dáil row expected over ban on advertising, promotion at concerts in park venues

Two out of five people unable to afford doctor’s visit

Irish Cancer Society warns public may be missing early diagnosis by not visiting GP

Daffodil Day launch hears one person dies from cancer every hour

Irish Cancer Society says record numbers using service as it plans March fundraiser

Ex-senator Averil Power appointed Irish Cancer Society chief

Power ran unsuccessfully as an independent for a Dáil seat in last election

Former envoys call for recognition of Palestinian state

Letter to Taoiseach signed by academics and artists urges Government to act ‘without delay’

More than 50,000 adoptees to get right to birth certificates

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone secures approval for Adoption Bill

Self-defence training flourishes amid rise in reported assaults

A growing number of people are learning defence techniques due to the risk of attack

Averil Power appointed chief executive of Asthma Society

Former Fianna Fáil senator says she was hospitalised several times with condition

Taoiseach may appoint Averil Power to the Seanad

Enda Kenny can select 11 candidates for Upper House and will choose some ex-FG TDs

Noel Whelan: A colourful Seanad but hopefully the last of its ilk

The most dramatic shift in the line up of the 43 senators on the vocational panels was the Sinn Féin breakthrough

David Norris re-elected to Seanad on Trinity panel

Independent senator elected on first count after receiving 4070 votes

Novices offer independent expertise as TCD Seanad candidates

Dementia activist, barrister, entrepreneur, climate action campaigner among hopefuls

Seanad postage outlay amounts to 88% of direct election costs

Renewed calls for reform and move to online registration and voting for global electorate

Thousands of Seanad ballots for university panels undelivered

Nearly 10,000 voting papers sent back to Trinity College Dublin and 13,000 to NUI

Miriam Lord: Seanad university seats and a different independence

Tension for Labour, old dreams for Fine Gael and a sweet tweet from Lynn Boylan

Leo Varadkar backs Averil Power in Seanad elections

Former TDs Jerry Buttimer, Joe O’Reilly and Colm Keaveney among nominations

Breda O’Brien: What wisdom can we glean from the election?

‘Social issues’ do count. All politics is local. People don’t want recovery for the few.

Una Mullally: Election result is not a victory for anti-abortion lobby

Candidates who specifically positioned themselves as against choice failed miserably

Swing to left in Dublin South Central and Dublin Bay North

Bríd Smith of AAA-PBP says Labour Party deserved battering at polls over policies

Where have all the liberal TDs gone? Turned out of office

Politicians behind popular agendas rewarded with electoral pain . . . rather than gain

Do Fianna Fáil aspire to government or opposition this time around?

Party profile: Polls suggest Fianna Fáil could win up to 30 seats

Independents could hold the balance of power after election

Party profile: Independent Alliance likely to demand ministerial role

Breakthrough Manifesto for Women attracts 100 candidates

National women’s council says campaign on general election ‘to end gender inequality’

The Dáil diet: what politicians think of the food in Leinster House

Mattie McGrath, Averil Power, Ann Phelan and Billy Kelleher discuss eating on the hoof

The Dáil’s in recess. What have politicians chosen to catch up on their reading?

Joan Burton on Jane Austen, Micheál Martin on Robert Kennedy, Aengus Ó Snodaigh on Jo Nesbo, and Willie O’Dea on Thomas Piketty

Miriam Lord: Marie Louise tells Mattie the jig is up for his jibes

Senator eats McGrath alive over his ‘outrageous’ behaviour in Oireachtas restaurant

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