Bon Secours Hospital Cork bosses have written to Cork University Hospital management calling for a pan-hospital approach to fighting Covid-19.

There are now 21 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ireland and 12 confirmed cases in the North.

Staff at Cork's Bon Secours Hospital have been told of a confirmed case of Covid-19, bringing to two the number of cases of the virus now in hospitals in the city.

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone has said that the Bon Secours order has an “ethical responsibility” to provide more funding for the exhumation and reburial of the remains of babies at the Tuam Mother and Baby home.

Cancer patients living in the south can now avail of some of the most technologically advanced treatments closer to home thanks to a new €77m cancer care centre in Cork.

Done up to the nines, with some architectural aplomb and, quirkily, with a strong, pink-hued thread running through its decor and interior design, it’s now a very sizeable 3,391 sq ft private family home.

Historian Catherine Corless, who exposed the Tuam Babies scandal, tells Donal O’Keeffe why she feels Tuam and Bessborough need to be excavated, and highlights Pope Francis’ apparent confusion about Tuam.

The Bon Secours hospital in Cork has officially opened its new cancer care centre, which was developed in partnership with US medical centre UPMC.

THE burial locations of thousands of babies born in mother and baby homes remain unknown after investigators hit unexplained gaps in official records and claims by religious orders that they did not know what went on.

Named with a delightful sense of innocence, or directness, is this Cork address, Doctors Road — and, no, it’s not the hinterlands of Orchard Road by the Bon Secours, the Hayfield or Heatherfield developments or even Bishopstown’s Highfield. All of those prescriptive ‘good’ Cork addresses have a preponderance of medics in situ, buying and selling.

A forensic examination will aim to identify the remains of all children buried at the site.

A robotic arm has given a new lease of life to Pat O’Sullivan’s leg.

I get by on about five hours’ sleep so I’m awake at the dawn, enough time to squeeze in a read, a few yoga stretches and coffee, before hitting the road at 7am.

The daughter of a 91-year-old woman has called for the exhumation of her mother’s body to facilitate a fresh autopsy.

Cutting-edge technology will be used at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork to provide a higher level of precision in attacking and killing cancerous tumours.

A day in the working life of Iona Maris, paediatrician at Bon Secours Hospital.

Tommy Barker admires a well maintained 1950s home in a tranquil setting in Cork’s western suburbs

Upto 50 clinical and nursing jobs will be created at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork as part of an ambitious €77m expansion.

5.45am: I’m an early riser and weather permitting, I like to squeeze in a run. 

Viewers at home took to Twitter to praise the historian and deeming her an Irish heroine.

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone says she will know within weeks how a proposed broadening of the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes will look, as she noted: “The dead do not lie.”

The President hopes the commission into mother and baby homes will “put the truth on the record”.

Controlling population by brutal means has been the norm in the world since the dawn of time, writes Victoria White.

Infants were taken from their mothers and sold, starved, trafficked, and in some cases denied life itself, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said in relation to the Tuam buried babies scandal.

While the Catholic Church is at the centre of the scandal, both the State and public at large were also complicit, writes Shane Kilcommins.

THIS society is again transfixed by scandal. Last week’s confirmation of a mass grave at the Bon Secours home in Tuam, that closed nearly 60 years ago and the belated acknowledgement that “Grace” had suffered decades of abuse reopened wounds that were no more than partially healed.

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It’s almost a pub quiz question for Cork’s version of University Challenge: for two marks, when was the fabled Western Star Pub demolished.

Consultants at a private hospital must ensure adequate cover in their absence after a patient died nine days after surgery to remove varicose veins.