Harris should meet parents of babies with life-limiting conditions

More support services needed for parents who choose to continue with such pregnancies

Children’s charity criticises lack of insurance cover from birth

Jack and Jill founder says lack of specified-illness or life cover from birth is ‘unfair’

Pieces of me: Mary Ann O’Brien, founder of Lily O’Brien’s Chocolates

‘I love our kitchen as it surrounds family and friends in a blanket of cosiness and warmth’

New children’s science centre granted planning permission

Multi-million euro facility to be completed in north wing of National Concert Hall by 2018

Console controversy: Every crisis can damage all charities

Charities Act 2009 is strong but many of its provisions long-fingered despite scandals

Parking for less than a fifth of staff at proposed children’s hospital

Despite 2,000 extra staff at St James’s site spaces will be down by 220 - planning hearing told

Sweet home where Lily O’Brien’s chocolate empire began

Chocolatier Mary Ann O’Brien and her husband Jonathan Irwin of the Jack and Jill Foundation are selling their family home, a large rambling pile built in 1700

Miriam Lord: Yes Equality seeks to start national conversation

‘I’m Voting Yes – Ask Me Why’ initiative runs risk of speaking to the converted

Yes Equality group plans 40 events nationwide

Umbrella group’s same-sex marriage campaign launched by broadcaster Charlie Bird

Joe Duffy to publish book on children killed in Easter Rising

Broadcaster says 40 children are forgotten victims of Easter Week 1916

My Health Experience: Caring for my daughter: ‘I have coping strategies, but I crawl under the duvet too’

Poppy can’t walk unaided, talk, feed or self-toilet – she suffers from ataxia, a rare form of cerebral palsy

Dublin Zoo pleads guilty to safety breach in tapir attack on child

Girl was picked up by animal and suffered arm and stomach injuries, court hears

Medical cards issue turned into banana skin for Government

Analysis: controversy over eligibility for medical cards erupted on election canvasses

Mr Shatter’s pique

Group proposes children’s hospital near M50

Healthcare professionals predict they could open facility by 2017 if State supported project

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In the charity sector, let’s not punish the many for the sins of the few

Opinion: If charities are to raise money successfully, they need to professionalise

Waste firm fined over odours at storage facility

Greyhound to pay up for waste management offences

CRC chairman should resign, says charity boss

Jack and Jill Foundation founder says CRC top-up revelations ‘appalling’

My Health Experience: ‘Stop worrying about what people will think of you’

The chief executive of the Jack and Jill Foundation pretended there was nothing wrong due to embarrassment. Thankfully, his wife didn’t

Funds down after revelations of top-up payments to CRC executives

Fundraising Ireland says revelations having a ‘disproportionate and unfair impact’ on efforts of charities

Homecare for ‘tracheostomy baby’ after case highlighted

Babies still ‘trapped’ in hospital due to lack of home-nursing supports from HSE

National homecare strategy for children needed ‘urgently’

Jack and Jill Foundation tells of 10 more babies ‘trapped’ in hospitals

Health reforms long overdue, Gilmore says

Patient care Government’s priority, Tánaiste says

Darragh’s uphill struggle to gain medical card leads to fresh calls for Government to fix ‘broken system’

‘Parents are exhausted from caring for their children and don’t have the energy to fight to get what their children deserve’

Lack of HSE funds leave children trapped in acute hospital beds

Six months after getting the all-clear, little Ellie Ward is trapped in hospital due to lack of HSE home-care funds

No family should be left alone to deal with a child’s terminal illness

Respite and homecare packages should be available to all regardless of location

Terminally ill child awaits HSE safe care-package

Parents can only bring daughter home from Tuesday night to Saturday morning every second week

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