Stephen Donnelly

The wait is over. After months of anticipation, Tuesday’s general election announcement is the signal for contenders to start campaigning for real. Su(...)

The health service is appointing the equivalent of two additional managers every week at a time of recruitment restrictions elsewhere in the health se(...)

Consider some news stories in Ireland during a single week in December 2019... 1. More than 140,000 children are living in homes that are cold and da(...)

The results of the Westminster election in Northern Ireland provoked a predictable chorus from commentators claiming it was a vote for a united Irelan(...)

No Government backbenchers attended a Dáil debate into the funding and staff shortage crisis in the disability sector. Minister of State for Disabili(...)

The postponement of chemotherapy sessions at Crumlin children’s hospital due to a lack of available beds has been described as “outrageous”. The hosp(...)

For the new national children’s hospital, 2019 has been bookended by criticisms over escalating costs: in January Fianna Fáil’s health spokesperson St(...)

Almost 215,000 children are on waiting lists for health care services, according to figures from the HSE. There are 90,000 children waiting for commu(...)

Cervical cancer campaigner Stephen Teap has said he is not happy with the “lack of compassion” shown by the Minister for Health for the women who were(...)

The State’s largest nursing home specifically for dementia patients is to stop admitting new patients due to a funding crisis. St Joseph’s, in Shanki(...)