THE number of children with mental health issues presenting to the paediatric emergency department in Temple Street has increased dramatically, according to a study by Dr Eoin Fitzgerald.

The findings are in an inspection report into medication safety at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street, following checks conducted last November.

Dr Irwin Gill, consultant paediatrician with special interest in neurodisability, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street

One in Four has backed calls for sex education for all children after a study showed that unless children disclose they have been abused around the time it happens, there is a risk they will not do so until they are an adult, if at all.

The Christmas lights were officially switched on at Temple Street Children's Hospital by patient Jake and The Coronas.

Phil Ní Sheaghdha has said it should not take a personal visit to the emergency department for the political system to know that citizens should not be subjected to lengthy waiting times.

The hospital is consistently the most overcrowded in the country, however management say they do not have enough bed capacity to deal with their catchment of around 400,000.

The country’s three main children’s hospitals have begun postponing elective procedures due to mounting pressure on the system ahead of the peak winter months.

A little boy beams up at his mum, Bambi legs bending as he skates around Cork’s new ice rink.

“Our perfect happy, healthy little boy would have to fight the bravest battle of his life at the tender age of two years and eight months."

A 10-year-old girl, who suffered a fracture to her left foot when a heavy radiator fell off the wall in her school, has been awarded just over €56,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Player of the Year nominee Jack McCaffrey has slammed Gaelic football’s new advanced mark rule as “awful” and claimed it’ll bring the game closer to Australian Rules.

NCBI works to provide the practical, emotional and social support so that people with sightloss can reach their full potential, says Chris White.

The chief executive of Children’s Health Ireland has said that there needs to be an urgent change in pay policy for new consultants.

Zac Higgins, from Mahon in Cork city, was diagnosed with a diffuse axonal injury (DAI) to the brain after he was hit by a car in March.

Dundalk has raised more than €7,000 for Temple Street Children’s Hospital under the club’s new purple-patterned ‘third kit’ initiative revealed to fans last March.

The paediatric service at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) in Tallaght and at Crumlin Hospital will be impacted by the planned industrial action by SIPTU tomorrow, Children’s Health Ireland have said.

A nine-year-old boy left brain damaged and permanently disabled after a failure to diagnose an infection when he was a baby has settled his High Court action against Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin with a final record damages payment of €25m.

The father of a toddler who was left with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in Cork has said that he is “absolutely blown away” by the support from friends and family.

2-year-old Zac Higgins suffered a broken collarbone and shoulder blade, and a bleed to the brain after being struck by a car while playing at about 3.50pm on Monday in Castle Meadows estate on the Skehard Road in Mahon.

Twelve of fifteen mobile phones belonging to senior garda officers are missing and cannot be provided to the Charleton Tribunal.

Hospital overcrowding continued yesterday, with 500 people waiting for an in-patient bed, according to the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation.

The number of patients walking out of emergency departments (ED) without being formally discharged has reached record levels.

An inquest has heard that a 19-month-old baby girl died after ingesting a foreign material that fatally damaged her oesphagus.

Dublin's three children's hospitals are advising people to expect long delays at their Emergency Departments.

Gardaí have asked for the public's help to find missing teenager Nathan Kelly.

Jen Hogan looks at how we can help our children engage in the true meaning of Christmas by helping others and focusing on presence, not presents.

The Late Late Toy Show is coming up in early December and the audience will comprise of adults instead of children, on the one night of the year supposed to be all about children.

Patients of Temple Street Children’s Hospital joined in on a special celebration to launch this year’s 'Trick or Treat for Temple Street' campaign.

The Minister for Health says more scoliosis surgeries have been carried out in Temple Street and Our Lady's children's hospitals already this year than for the whole of last year.

He said he was afraid his son would walk home on a dangerous, rural road after his wife could not pick the child up.

Newly crowned All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Champions Dublin were feted tonight at St Sylvesters, Malahide, with over 2,000 people in attendance.

Health Minister Simon Harris has attempted to avoid a repeat of the national maternity hospital fiasco by insisting a new national children’s hospital will be “secular” and completely devoid of any religious control.

Hardly a day passes without some story of failure in our health services. 

Irish hospitals may soon be unable to guarantee “routine” services as a basic right to patients due to the severe strain record-breaking new waiting list figures are putting on the system.

A man is to face trial accused of dangerous driving causing death of a 13-year-old boy following an alleged hit-and-run incident in Dublin.

The parents of baby Finn put their faith in the doctors at Temple Street after they learnt their boy’s skull would be disfigured without surgery, writes Jen Hogan.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a shooting incident in north Dublin.

The attack happened shortly before 8pm in Shangan Green in Ballymun.

Thousands of Irish children suffer from severe psoriasis, but Pearl Tier is not about to let the condition get her down, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A 10-month-old baby girl had “classic” symptoms of abusive head trauma, the trial of her former child minder heard today.

A childminder on trial accused of causing serious harm to a 10-month-old baby told gardaí that the child was not “violently shaken” or assaulted while in her care.

Rural Independent TDs have called for the Government to cancel plans to build a new national children’s hospital in Dublin city centre, warning the location will fail to help children and teenagers in genuine need.

A three-year-old Limerick boy who made a miraculous recovery after falling six stories has returned to creche for the first time.

Brian O’Driscoll was on the scene in Edinburgh four years ago when Paddy Jackson’s Ireland debut veered off script but the retired centre believes the Ulster man’s progress has been such there is no reason for Ireland to panic in Jonathan Sexton’s absence this Saturday.