SO YOU want change? But do you really? The word change is in vogue in the wake of the general election.

Ms Harney is the current chancellor of UL and her term runs to 2022.

According to the Asthma Society of Ireland, 8,200 deaths have been prevented in Dublin since the ban was introduced in 1990.

Survivors of abuse, along with legal experts and academics have lined up in opposition to controversial legislation to seal millions of child abuse records for 75 years.

Legal threats from coal firms have stopped the Government from introducing a nationwide ban on smoky coal which environmental activists and opposition parties are demanding.

Fine Gael’s best chance of winning one of the four by-elections is in Dublin Mid-West.

More than 300 staff jobs are to be created at University of Limerick (UL) as part of an ambitious five-year investment worth hundreds of millions of euro.

Seven acute hospitals had 30 or more admitted patients waiting for a bed today and the worst-hit hospital was University Hospital Limerick with 76 waiting.

The prospect of life on Mars made the front page of the Cork Examiner 50 years ago.

It was the worst ever July for hospital overcrowding, with 9,439 admitted patients waiting for a bed, according to the latest monthly analysis from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The Government has described its new plan for the health service as a significant milestone in the delivery of the biggest reform of the HSE since its establishment in 2005.

The transparency and accountability the new structure promised back in 2005 never materialised. Now the HSE is being reinvented again, writes Catherine Shanahan

It’s hard not to get tired and emotional while raking over the Dáil debates of the Noughties when screening failures and smear test backlogs were also making waves.

The theatre of the last few weeks in Westminster has meant that all our attention has been focused east across the Irish Sea. But that begs the question as to whether we should be looking west rather than east.

The health minister has thanked the project director of the National Children’s Hospital Development Board (NCHDB) for the “significant role” he played in progressing the flagship project.

Politicians and campaigners have strongly condemned a protest group for targeting Simon Harris at his family home as the health minister faces ongoing demands to resign over the deepening children’s hospital and nurses strike scandals.

Ex-Fianna Fáil minister and MEP election candidate Conor Lenihan has rejected claims that his close Russian business ties risk making him Ireland’s answer to Donald Trump, saying he has nothing to “hide” over his post-Dáil work.

The question must be asked of Fianna Fáil how, after 61 years in charge of the health service, they did not leave us a single-tier public health care, writes Victoria White

The question must be asked of Fianna Fáil how, after 61 years in charge of the health service, they did not leave us a single-tier public health care, writes Victoria White

The minister for health, Simon Harris, published a strategy document — a 10-year plan to reform the health service — last week. 

An American professor who revolutionised how people receive lifesaving drugs was yesterday awarded an honorary doctorate at University of Limerick.

Below is an extract from my letter published in the Irish Examiner in November 2007:

Those bubbles might once have been sound bites, now they are the foam formed by a minister gulping for air, writes Gerard Howlin

The current scandal over the cervical cancer screening has once more thrown up the recurring question of Irish public life — why is nobody ever held accountable? writes Michael Clifford.

All former health ministers stretching back over the last 15 years could be hauled before a cross-party Oireachtas committee to answer questions on the cervical cancer tests scandal.

There is a politician who could fix the health service. She does not currently hold public office, but maybe she will someday, writes Michael Clifford.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted he is baffled by the sky-rocketing trolley count crisis after claiming he does not know why the situation is spiralling out of control.

Conventional wisdom, that imperfect, inconsistent gauge of our thoughts, suggests voters can be divided into three categories: Those who vote for Sinn Féin, those who might, and those who, no matter what, would never vote for the party.

University of Limerick’s Governing Authority has voted unanimously to appoint former Tánaiste Mary Harney as chancellor of the university and chairperson of its Governing Authority.

Ireland is set to travel a bumpy — and very expensive — road in the journey to meet its clean energy and carbon emission reduction targets, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has reiterated the government’s determination to protect the Common Travel Area and "protect the free movement of people and the mutually beneficial flow of students, staff and researchers."

Schools that receive funds to feed students will be barred from serving meals that are high in sugar, salt, and fat under new rules to be announced today.

The HSE has defended the level of security it had in place at the St Kevin’s unit in Cork, but would not reveal how much it had cost in recent years.

On the 40th anniversary, Ryle Dwyer looks at the momentous events of the 1977 general election.

The State utterly failed to protect the taxpayer from the dangers of white-collar crime all the way along, so to Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin, please spare us your outrage and your anger, suggests Daniel McConnell.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer for young Irish women, despite an effective screening programme and free vaccine. Why has there been such a dramatic fall in the number of girls getting vaccinated? asks Jessica Casey.

TOM Keane is a man to whom anybody who gives a fig about the country should listen, says Michael Clifford.