Among various claims, Meraid Hyland-McGuire alleges failure to act appropriately in response to an electrocardiogram (ECG) carried out on her 58-year-old husband Patrick.

The study is a collaboration between the Beacon Hospital Research Institute and the International Concussion and Head Injury Research Foundation (ICHIRF). Researchers said it will allow for better management of concussions in the future.

Fiona Kirwan, Director of Nursing, Beacon Hospital, Sandyford

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen is being treated in the Beacon Hospital in Dublin after falling seriously ill last night.

Beacon Hospital in Dublin has announced that it now houses Ireland’s most advanced radiotherapy machine.

Dr Carl Fagan is a consultant in intensive care medicine at the Beacon Hospital, Dublin.

A man whose wife died in April 2017 after a cancer misdiagnosis has recalled her last days and outlined how difficult he found being told she was wrongly given the all-clear from a smear test.

Suzanne Garvey talks us through a typical day in her job in the Beacon Hospital

I am a concerned, ill and disabled older woman aged 64. I know the 'lay of the land' as a former nurse and social worker. 

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Bus Éireann driver Ken O’Donnell said they never wanted to let people down, but they have been let down themselves.

Public hospital managers are not subject to the same level of scrutiny as their private healthcare counterparts, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Earnings before hefty interest and depreciation and other items at the Denis O’Brien-owned Beacon Hospital in Dublin last year increased 28% to €9.2m, new figures show.

The war of words in the National Maternity Hospital row grew more entrenched over the weekend, as both sides accused the other of peddling mistruths.

Earnings at Dublin’s Beacon Hospital increased more than threefold last year to €7.2m, new figures show.

St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin has been heavily criticised by the Oireachtas Health Committee for failing to appear before it in relation to serious allegations about its procurement practices.

The Beacon Hospital in Dublin has confirmed that an employee featured in an RTÉ report into procurement practices at hospitals has resigned.

Eight hospitals, five of them taxpayer-funded, are under investigation amid claims staff got gifts from a medical supplies firm in return for contracts and commercially sensitive information.

Senior Department of Health officials were warned almost a decade ago that private firms were using “hospitality” to influence hospital workers and doctors — but instead of acting shelved the detailed Oireachtas report.

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The main Irish arm of US medical firm, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre recorded a loss of €71.9m on its disposal of the Beacon Hospital last year, new accounts show.

He is well on the road to recovery and with a clear destination in mind: Damien Duff is hoping to make his League of Ireland debut before the season is out.

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COMEDIAN Oliver Callan doesn’t lose sleep about the Irish public figures and celebrities he skewers on his weekly satirical RTÉ radio show, Callan’s Kicks.

An Irish software technology company has today announced the addition of up to 50 new positions primarily in its R&D, sales and cloud services divisions.

Losses continued to mount last year at the Beacon Private Hospital with pre-tax losses totalling €8.7m.

Businessman Denis O'Brien is to taking over control of the Beacon private hospital in Dublin.

All-Ireland-winning Banner boss Davy Fitzgerald has claimed that alcohol and substance abuse was “a problem” in the Clare senior hurling panel in the middle of the last decade.

Bill O’Herlihy believes he is the luckiest man in the world.

A new expert guide for women on how to cope in the aftermath of breast cancer surgery has been launched by a leading advocacy group.

A TOTAL of 14 nurses have been sanctioned by their regulatory body, An Bord Altranais, in recent months for professional misconduct and poor professional performance.

AN €80 million healthcare project that will provide 350 construction jobs is set to get under way in Cork city in September pending the approval of An Bord Pleanála.

SURGERIES for morbidly obese people here could cost the public almost €6 million every 12 months within the next decade, it has been claimed.

DESPITE the opposition of its own planning inspector and well-founded opposition from local residents, medical consultants, councillors, opposition TDs and Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin, Bord Pleanála has given the Beacon Medical Group (BMG) permission to build their colocated hospital in the grounds of Cork University Hospital.

A NEW €80 million private hospital is being proposed for Cork city centre.

The Beacon Medical Group, which was appointed by the HSE to develop three co-located hospitals, is to implement redundancies and pay reviews.

The Government's controversial co-location plan has moved a step closer to becoming reality.

A NEW women’s health centre specialising in keyhole surgery for many gynaecological procedures opened in Dublin yesterday.

Former Health Minister Mary O'Rourke says she is confident that the Government will begin rolling out the national cervical vaccine programme for women next year.

NEARLY 1,200 patients have been treated in the A&E department of the new private Beacon Hospital since it opened its doors on March 21.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has been paying for the use of cancer facilities at the private Beacon Hospital in south Dublin after a key piece of equipment at a public hospital in the capital broke down.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte last night said he was prepared to take over the job of Minister for Health, considered to be the poisoned chalice in government.