1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (552+ words) A charity run by a Wicklow-based businessman received more than 170 warnings from the Charities Regulator over its failure to file annual accounts over a period of six years. Earlier this year the Shauna Kavanagh Foundation (SKF) company was listed for…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (602+ words) A planning notice for the Dublin District Heating Project has been issued, opening a six-week period for public submissions on the long-promised scheme. The project, meant to begin a decade ago, will take heat generated by burning household waste at…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (399+ words) The HSE has warned festivalgoers about the circulation of high-strength MDMA and synthetic stimulants that “significantly” increase overdose risk. Ahead of the District X dance music festival this weekend, the executive said it is monitoring “several emerging concerns in the…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (605+ words) “Three months to live without treatment but between six and eight months with treatment.” That was the prognosis for Laurence Ellis (67) when he was diagnosed with end-stage renal cancer in April He was surprised to be offered services at Galway…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (315+ words) Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan has said his day-to-day life has changed “dramatically” after he was hospitalised in Brussels in July. O’Donovan was attending an event for Ireland’s EU presidency when he fell ill in the Belgian capital. The Limerick…...

2+ week, 33+ min ago   (480+ words) A woman who sought €8,000 in damages for “mental distress” after allegedly encountering a silverfish “infestation” in a rented Co Donegal property has failed in an attempt to hold her former landlord liable. Noreen Alexander Whelan told a Residential Tenancies Board…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (489+ words) An independent assessor is required to determine appropriate staffing levels at Cork University Hospital, consultants have urged. In a letter to Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill on Wednesday, the consultants wrote that a staffing shortfall was “already affecting patient…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (332+ words) “Uncertainty doesn’t come occasionally, singly, or in isolated categories. It’s the ocean in which we swim for most of our working lives.” – Dr John Launer, BMJ columnist. Dealing with uncertainty is an everyday reality in healthcare. Managing diagnostic uncertainty is…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (458+ words) An Irishman who was warned he may never walk again after his spinal cord was seriously damaged has begun a trek across the United States. At 8.30am on Saturday, Fergus Farrell (47) was cheered on by a large group of family, friends…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (278+ words) Of course this does not mean all adolescents engage in dangerous behaviour. Most young people navigate adolescence without engaging in extreme risk. However, developmental psychology helps us understand why, for some young people, the immediate reward of excitement, peer recognition…...