Tallaght Hospital

“I knew there had to be a name for it,” Martina Murphy says as we discuss her carer role as part of the “sandwich generation” – the name given to thos(...)

The mother of a six-year-old girl, who is approaching the end of her life, had to set up a GoFundMe page to fund her daughter’s 24-hour palliative car(...)

“The siblings are always forgotten,” says Lynn McDonald, referring to her daughter Ellie, who is 11, as we discuss Lynn’s role as carer for (...)

From early this morning in Newcastle, Co Dublin young women began placing bunches of flowers at the entrance of Parson’s Court, the estate where the b(...)

The three young children whose bodies were discovered in a Co Dublin house on Friday evening have been named. Gardaí are expected to begin a triple m(...)

A GP who failed to provide adequate care for a patient who later died of thyroid cancer has been found guilty of poor professional performance at the (...)

Self-prescribing and prescribing for friends and family is widespread among young Irish doctors, in contravention of official guidelines, a new survey(...)

A case in the Dublin District Court earlier this week stoked the perhaps low-level fears many Irish people have that they are being ripped off in a di(...)

There were nearly 650 patients deemed to require admission to hospital waiting on trolleys in emergency departments or on wards for a bed on Wednesday(...)

The recent birth of their second child was bittersweet for Deirdre and Tristan O’Gorman: while of course they were overjoyed, his safe arrival reinfor(...)