Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Ministers and key hospitals clash over financial controls

Ministers intervene to insist new €200m management system is deployed across voluntary and HSE hospitals

Two women allegedly assaulted on Catherine Connolly canvass in Dublin

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Connolly supporters accosted by man in north inner city

Doctors call for regulations as e-scooter injuries present ‘growing challenge to healthcare’

Risks associated with use ‘cannot be overstated’, authors of study say

Depicting MetroLink as primarily an airport service is an example of Michael O’Leary’s myopic thinking

Arguments by the Ryanair boss that we should give up on rail solutions and rely on the car and bus make no sense

Cost of hiring agency staff in hospitals hit €380m last year

HSE says high spend was despite intensive recruitment efforts, but David Cullinane criticises figures as ‘completely unacceptable’

Mater Private manager admits to modifying pay system to his advantage

Fitness to practise committee hears of €56,000 in overpayments

Genetic cures on demand: ‘Within four weeks, the vision in his eyes had doubled’

Gene therapy introduces new DNA materials into cells in the treatment of specific diseases

Hospitals allowed to act like ‘independent republics’ for too long, says Minister for Health

Productivity dashboard showing activity levels, waiting lists and more will ‘hold healthcare facilities to account’

Doctor found guilty of attempting to use fake diplomas to register with Medical Council

Doctor claimed to have specialist qualification in cardiology from Charles University in Prague, fitness to practise hearing told

HSE says ‘hyperinflation’ among factors behind building projects’ €26m price rise

‘Good value for money’ achieved for new hospital wing, says Mater

Drug companies told some of Ireland’s largest hospitals critical supplies would be halted as bills not paid

Mater and Beaumont hospitals told HSE companies were putting their accounts ‘on hold’

Mater hospital’s emergency department extension delayed by a year due to nursing shortages

Hiqa report found 19.7 per cent of positions unfilled on inspection

Róisín Ingle: Finally, perhaps inevitably, my bad habit had landed me in hospital

I invited Jonny for dinner on Leap Day hoping he wouldn’t twig the significance of the date

Care worker awarded €60,000 after being attacked by patient in Dublin’s Mater hospital

Sean Spada was left on his own to look after a violent patient known to have earlier committed self harm

‘One day I was playing tennis, the next I was having open-heart surgery’

My decades-long run of relative good health was over. In the playlist of my life, this was a needle-scratching-vinyl moment

Award of €56,000 to girl (11) over fall from monkey bars appropriate, judge rules

Halle Carney, from Cabra, fell into foam pit at fun park operated by Bounce N Beyond

HSE told to shift staff working patterns

Donnelly orders new development funding for Beaumont, Mater and Tallaght be paused until new productivity systems implemented

‘He drinks too much. But what else can he do? He lives alone’

The General, who was in with a broken leg, seemed surprisingly compassionate

Hospital’s transfer of patient in breach of order branded a ‘disgrace’ by judge

Judge criticises ‘fundamental systems break down’ at Mater hospital in Dublin

Five major Dublin hospitals receive €200m bailout to pay staff before Christmas

The hospitals wrote to the HSE saying they were facing a financial shortfall of more than €100 million

Voluntary hospitals warn they may have to choose between paying staff and suppliers amid HSE cash limits

Hospitals say spending restrictions will force them to choose between paying staff, suppliers or Revenue

Mater hospital warned of ‘catastrophic technical failure’ of computer systems after major outage

Failure of hospital’s patient record system in July led to cancellation of surgeries and plea to avoid Emergency Department

Traumatic spinal injury: ‘They said I wouldn’t walk again. You feel like your whole world has been robbed’

Eoghan Gorman’s life changed instantly after a bad fall. He says better supports are needed to help people with disabilities reintegrate in the community

Hospitals want Coalition to set out funding over several years as in case of RTÉ

Voluntary hospitals also warn on cost of boosting cybersecurity and weight of accumulated deficits of more than €340m

‘Rare’ blood clots led to patient’s death following heart surgery, inquest hears

Brendan Lawlor died two weeks after an operation at the Mater Private Hospital from a ‘rare but recognised’ complication

Mater hospital forced to cancel some surgeries due to ongoing IT problems

Issues affecting the Mater’s IT system are not as a result of any malicious attack

Mater Hospital asks public to avoid emergency department as access to patients’ records cut off

IT issue affecting Dublin hospital emerged earlier on Tuesday but cause of problem not yet known

‘I was at family celebration ... then suddenly my heart was racing and I started to get sick’

Genetic heart conditions: Testing family members for cardiac genetic abnormalities following a sudden adult death can save lives

Large public hospitals warn they could have to curtail or close services as deficits exceed €340m

Voluntary hospitals tell HSE they are facing ‘critical liquidity issues’

‘My donor was the same age as I was when he died’: Ireland’s longest-living heart transplant recipient gives thanks for second chance

Andy Kavanagh was told life expectancy post-transplant in the 1986 was normally one or two years

Uptake of public-only consultant contract lower in Midwest

Move to phase out private care from public system has had different take-up in different parts of the country

An Post named most reputable organisation over last 15 years as RTÉ suffers greatest decline

Credit unions top the annual RepTrak study for 2024, with only X found to have a worse reputation than RTÉ

Excessive use of social media creating generation of ‘broken people’, psychiatrist says

Use of social networks increasingly contributing to mental health problems, particularly among young people, conference hears

Homeowners accuse Metrolink body of being ‘economical with the truth’ about effects of tunnelling

Noise expert says tunnel machine noise akin to ‘washing machine’ but residents say they have had little contact with Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Heart transplant: ‘My donor and their family were wonderful angels who gave me the gift of life’

Mary Broderick has had a long road to travel from a heart murmur since infancy to receiving a new heart with various other surgeries along the way

The children’s hospital project has been both meticulously planned and overly rushed

The problem isn’t the overrun - it is that the cost was grossly underestimated and all the information the market needed to squeeze the Government was made public

Prisoners to be screened for hepatitis C ahead of WHO elimination deadline of 2030

Fewer than 5,000 people in Ireland estimated to have disease but many are hard-to-reach drug users

Mater hospital trials use of Artificial Intelligence in radiology department

Technology has led to rapid notification of suspected pathologies and the freeing up of time

Detectives still waiting to arrest Dublin child stabbing suspect two weeks on

While suspected attacker’s medical condition has improved, 49-year-old naturalised Irish citizen still suffering serious injury

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Dublin riots: Life in the city centre is partially returning to normal but there are fears that there could be more trouble

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