I’m 72 — born 1947 — grew up in the 50s. I wouldn’t be alive without the care of the Bons Secours sisters in Tralee.

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has become the first public gallery in Ireland to acquire work by Bob Carlos Clarke, the renowned photographer from Kinsale who took his own life in 2006.

Ten years after his tragic death, the work of Cork photographer Bob Carlos Clarke continues to stir interest and debate, writes Ellie O’Byrne

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There’s horses for courses out at Old Abbey, in Cork’s Waterfall: not only is the area home to a well-known riding school, Greybrook, but it’s also popular with hunts.

Reductions in the numbers holding private health insurance contributed to profits at the country’s largest privately-owned hospital group decreasing by 31% to €5.1m last year.

College Road, Cork €345,000

A leading weight-loss surgeon at one of the country’s largest private hospitals has described the HSE’s decision to suspend surgery for dangerously obese public patients for the rest of the year as "morally wrong".

The Children's Minister is expected to tell his colleagues at this morning's Cabinet meeting that a full inquiry into mother-and-baby homes is now likely.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is being called on to apologise on behalf of the State to the women and children who resided at mother and baby homes.

The Taoiseach has been asked to initiate an inquiry into the deaths of newborns and young infants at mother and baby homes.

Sheila Hyde is fitter than ever, and now appreciates the simple things, says Louise Roseingrave

Footballers and hurlers throughout the Kingdom will be in safe hands in 2013 after the Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee, announced it has become the healthcare partner to the GAA in Kerry.

VHI say they cannot afford to provide cover for the Cork Medical Centre, or any other new private hospital development.

Nurses and admin staff at a leading private hospital group are to strike as a row over pay cuts spread today.

EIRCOM last night blamed contractors working on a €2 million road project for cutting phone services to dozens of customers for almost two months.

IN the first three months of this year I was a patient at the Bons Secours hospital in Cork.

YOU’LL Never Walk Alone, the immortal anthem penned by the aptly named Gerry and the Pacemakers, belted out as nurses marched outside one of the country’s largest hospitals yesterday.

The Irish Nurses Organisation today dismissed suggestions that delays in opening the new Cork University Maternity Hospital were due to a demand for more money.

THE first thing you notice about Ireland’s newest maternity hospital is its shape, a sweeping expanse of limestone, steel and glass that adorns the southern approach to Cork University Hospital in the city’s Wilton area.

THE chief executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) said yesterday he expected up to 1,800 out-patients to be treated under the scheme in Cork and Kerry this year.

WHEN it opened two years ago, bearing none of the down-trodden, overcrowded hallmarks of our public hospital system, the splendour of the Galway Clinic drew justifiable comparisons with a luxury five-star hotel.

A ROW over money has erupted between the VHI and pathologists at a private hospital in Cork.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was yesterday urged to look to Sweden for a model on which to reform healthcare in this country.

PRIVATE hospitals are having difficulties recruiting consultants because of the continuing uncertainty over their insurance for medical negligence claims.