Billy Holland and his wife Lanlih have described the birth of their baby as "gift from Emmeline” on social media.

The HSE has set up a dedicated team to trace everyone who came into contact with the coronavirus patient in Cork University Hospital (CUH) amid the first signs of panic buying in the city.

Former Kerry star Seamus Scanlon has thanked former Cork footballing adversary James Masters and his Garda colleagues for coming to his pregnant wife’s rescue last week.

Jack Downey began to feel unwell at the festival on August 2 at around 4.30pm.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal road traffic collision involving three cars in Co Cork last night.

Elderly people are getting lost in a health system that is not fit for purpose, says Bernadette Walshe, whose elderly father begged for a bed for his wife at Cork University Hospital.

Padhraig O’Loughlin is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Mater Private, Cork.

Cameron Blair, 20, was killed at a house on the Bandon Road on Thursday night and a murder investigation has been launched.

Meanwhile, two of the largest hospitals in the country have warned people to stay away due to high levels of influenza patients.

A CORK city house that has been a life-saving, holistic home-from-home for many hundreds of persons given cancer diagnoses now looks set to return to private, family accommodation and ‘domestic service’ once more.

Noelle Healy lined out in the Mourneabbey colours for the final time on Saturday evening - All-Ireland glory the perfect ending to her nine-month adventure with the North Cork club.

“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."

This residence at Classes Lake in Ovens, Co Cork, has it sussed when it comes to optimum spatial organisation, says Caroline Delaney

Taoiseach criticised over his ‘see no evil’ response to the situation

Plans to expand life-saving stroke treatment at Cork University Hospital (CUH) face a major delay because of difficulties filling a key consultant post.

A landmark study which seeks to identify our risk of developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and how we might respond to treatment has recruited 2,000 patients and is at the point where it should soon start producing “powerful results”.

Top Irish indie rock band, Walking on Cars, have agreed to headline a very special charity gig in Cork to help kit out Cork University Hospital's (CUH) new €40m childrens' unit.

Gardaí are hunting for two suspects who knocked a woman in her 90s to the ground during a daylight mugging in a Cork town.

Though he’s had to bring one of his own children to A&E due to a virus, Dr Phil Kieran believes kids for the most part are resilient and bounce back quickly after an illness. He talks to Helen O’Callaghan

Kya deLongchamps offers some valuable tips on how to get your green winter daily cleaning arsenal ready in just one afternoon

Latest: An infant who sustained serious injuries in a Limerick car crash has died.

Just days before his accident, Liam O'Riordan was on a fundraising truck-run to help get Ireland's first community-funded air ambulance in the air.

The protocol that allowed this roadside transfusion was drawn up by Dr Eoin Fogarty, based on the successful protocol used in Sydney.

The 19-year-old from Clonmel, Co Tipperary became unwell while at the Indiependence festival earlier this month.

Jack Downey, 19, of Ard Caoin in Clonmel passed away last Monday having been rushed to Cork University Hospital three days earlier after he fell ill.

Cork University Hospital has blamed a "large number of very ill patients requiring admission" for delays which saw 68 admitted patients on trolleys in its emergency department and elsewhere in the hospital today.

Garda investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 19-year-old at a music festival over the weekend are continuing.

I arrived hungry and angry as some strange man removed me from my place of comfort.

A young man who was taken to Cork University Hospital after consuming a substance at the Indiependence Music Festival has died.

Cork's Indiependence Festival issued a welfare alert after a 19-year-old male was transferred to Cork University Hospital (CUH) with a "severe illness" after consuming drugs.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a toddler in Cork are preparing a file for the DPP after releasing a woman without charge.

Gardaí were last night awaiting the results of an autopsy before deciding what direction their investigation would take in relation to the death of a toddler who sustained critical injuries in a Cork city apartment.

An eight-year-old boy was brought to Cork University Hospital earlier this evening with non-life threatening injuries after he was hit by a car in Whitechurch, north of Cork city, just after 7pm.

A man in his early 50s has died in a farming accident in Co Cork.

The National Transport Authority says it hopes to achieve some quick-wins on the bus and rail network once its ambitious €3.5bn transport strategy for the greater Cork area is adopted.

The death of an asylum seeker with a serious heart condition just weeks after his transfer from Dublin to Cork without medical notes should act as “a clarion call” to the Government that reforms of the asylum system haven’t gone far enough.

An asylum seeker with a heart condition who was unable to walk 200 metres without extreme breathlessness spent his last few weeks of life in extreme distress as he had to take repeated trips by bus from Cork to Dublin for medical treatment, his widow has claimed at his inquest.

The number of patients able to access a treatment shown to cure stroke could increase fourfold at Cork University Hospital (CUH) when it extends the hours the service is available from next July.

Nicholas O’Halloran began to give up on getting the double lung transplant he needed. Now he is living a life of hope, he tells Helen O’Callaghan.

Patients going into Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Monday night were greeted by a poster telling them the hospital and its emergency department were in a state of ‘black escalation’ — which means it was not safe.

A 'black escalation level' had to be declared at Cork University Hospital (CUH) as there was such a severe backlog of patients in the emergency department.