Mater Hospital

There has been continuing political controversy concerning the obligations imposed on hospitals by the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act. An ear(...)

Were a government to punish a medical institution for declining to implement a law repugnant to its ethos – by, for example, withdrawing State subvent(...)

The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 was recently signed into law. Its provisions were debated at great length in the media and in the Oir(...)

The family of the second man who died from injuries sustained when a hijacked taxi crashed into a lock bridge in Dublin city centre over the bank holi(...)

Gardaí in Dublin have recovered a motorcycle which they believe may have been involved in the shooting of a 33-year-old man who subsequently fled t(...)

The Mater hospital in Dublin “cannot comply” with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act and cannot carry out abortions, a member of its board of(...)

Heavy rain fell on Dublin again this evening, hours after Met Éireann issued a warning that more than 30mm could fall in a six hour period.The orange (...)

Clery’s Department store on O’Connell Street in Dublin will remain closed in the coming days after it incurred “significant water damage” during heavy(...)

Áine McMahonPreventing falls among elderly people is among the aims of a new research project involving sensor technology. The three year project is b(...)

A man who claimed to have a grenade and threatened to kill three gardai with it before assaulting them has received an eight year jail sentence.Alan H(...)