Rob Landers

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The mortuary at University Hospital Waterford. Photograph: Patrick Browne
Waterford Hospital says it got no complaint about mortuary from staff or public
  • Health
  • April 29, 2019, 18:59

University Hospital Waterford has said it currently has “no evidence that would substantiate the claims contained in recent correspondence” about the (...)

Prof Rob Landers said he had been campaigning for a new facility for 15 years ‘and suddenly, after a huge negative pressure from the media today, the HSE announces it’s going to start in six months’. time’ Photograph: Eoghan Dalton
Pathologist ‘cynical’ about plans for Waterford hospital mortuary

One of the consultant pathologists who wrote a damning letter to the Health Service Executive informing them of serious concerns at University Hospita(...)

University Hospital Waterford. Image: Google Maps
Dead bodies left on trolleys in corridors at Waterford hospital

Dead bodies have been left lying on trolleys at University Hospital Waterford (UHW), leaking bodily fluids on to corridors and making closed-coffin fu(...)

Tramore-based People Before Profit representative Una Dunphy: “We are not getting our proper piece of the pie.” Photograph: Mary Browne
Waterford stays optimistic in the face of years of neglect

How do you describe Waterford? It’s a summer evening after rain. In the middle of a warren of small streets up a hill stands Walsh Park, Waterford’s(...)

An inquest has heard the remains of Bridget Crosbie of The Faythe in Wexford town were discovered on November 20th after family members contacted gardaí upon learning she had not been seen in the locality for a long period. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Woman’s body may have lain undiscovered for three months

The body of an 82-year-old woman found at her home in Wexford town in November 2015 may have lain undiscovered for up to three months, according to an(...)

Anna Kirk, a daughter of the late Vera Vollrath, asked why it had taken so long for the inquest into her mother’s death at a Co Waterford nursing home to take place. File photograph: Collins Courts.
Woman died after being ‘smothered with pillow’ in nursing home

The inquest into the death of an elderly woman who died in a Co Waterford nursing home has found that suffocation by smothering with a pillow was the (...)