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So far this year, six cyclists have been killed on Irish roads and many more injured, some very seriously. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Irish hospitals treat one cyclist every three days for trauma injury on roads

Irish hospitals treat one cyclist every three days for major trauma sustained in road traffic incidents, according to new research. A total of 410 cy(...)

Tomorrows: The Night Chorus 1 review – sonic adventures into the darkness
  • Music
  • June 7, 2019, 05:00

The immediate takeaway from Tomorrows’ sophomore release, The Night Chorus 1, is that the seven nocturnally-led arrangements (which get the ball rolli(...)

There are 26 major trauma centres in Ireland, but no one hospital has all necessary trauma services on site, says the report
Large numbers of patients dying unnecessarily, says report

Large numbers of patients are dying unnecessarily due to delays in setting up a co-ordinated system for treating trauma patients, according to a new r(...)

Ella Martin (3) pictured with her mother Olivia O’Callaghan. Photograph: Cork Courts Limited.
Doctors unable to establish why girl (3) died suddenly, inquest told

An open verdict has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a previously healthy three-year-old girl from Co Cork who died suddenly after fallin(...)

Only 8 per cent of major trauma patients were received by a trauma team or had consultant input within the initial 30 minutes in the emergency department. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Trauma care reform ‘urgently needed’
  • Health
  • February 1, 2018, 01:00

Trauma care in Ireland must be reformed to meet evidence-based standards of best practice and to care for the changing profile of trauma patients . T(...)

Ballygunner’s JJ Hutchinson celebrates scoring a goal in the AIB Munster Club SHC semi-final at Walsh Park. Photograph: Ken Sutton/Inpho
Ballygunner catch fire in second half to beat Sixmilebridge

Ballygunner (Waterford) 1-18 Sixmilebridge (Clare) 1-17 A magnificent second-half rally saw Ballygunner overturn a five-point half-time deficit to ov(...)

International research revealed that patient education, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) education, was helping to reduce the incidence of fatal and non-fatal overdose in substance users. Photograph: Getty Images
Cork treatment centre trains addicts in resuscitation skills in effort to prevent overdose deaths

A Cork treatment centre is training people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol in resuscitation(...)

Back in the R.O.I – Fifty years on, the Fab Four are still causing a stir in Dublin

There’s no greater debate in rock music: Lennon or McCartney? We sat down with two local musicians to verbally slug it out. In the red corner, repr(...)