The final amount of money raised will be announced on the 23rd December on Ireland AM.

Actress Amber Heard is donating her $7m divorce settlement from actor Johnny Depp to charity.

A 10-year-old boy who received an electric shock when he hammered a nail in to an ESB pole has settled his High Court action for €700,000.

An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant.

Doctors in Houston are optimistic 10-month-old formerly conjoined twin girls will survive after a recent surgery that separated them.

Children barely into their teens are developing a potentially fatal eating disorder, with new research showing the average age for developing anorexia nervosa is now 13 years.

Lawyers for an Irish nanny accused of killing a baby in the US said medical experts hired by prosecutors have concluded that the child suffered bone fractures weeks before her death when she was not in the nanny’s care.

A funeral home discovered a baby was alive two days after he was pronounced dead at a hospital in eastern China.

IN THE hours before Michael Noonan got to his feet yesterday, you would have been forgiven for expecting a declaration of war rather than a budget speech.

An Irish-American girl whose fight to qualify for organ donation drew nationwide debate in the US over how organs are allocated, underwent a lung transplant operation last night after a match with an adult donor was made.

An Irish nanny has been remanded in custody in the US charged with murdering a one-year-old girl she was caring for, authorities have confirmed.

Cavan-born nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady was last night indicted in Boston on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of one-year-old Rehma Sabir.

Olympic hero Jessica Ennis has been officially granted the freedom of her home city.

Toddler Sergio O’Connor has just returned to Ireland after undergoing major surgery to connect his digestive system in the US.

An Irish nanny living in the US, who has been charged with violently assaulting a baby who later died, may yet face a murder charge, the district attorney’s office has said.

It’s great being back on stage in the panto, although the dance routines are a bit hard on the talons.

I welcome the revised outline plan to develop a new Children’s Hospital. They undoubtedly need it, but we need to learn from recent history and sound a note of caution.

Why should the proposed National Children’s Hospital be built in Dublin?

President Barack Obama says he is "shocked and saddened" by the deadly mass shooting at a Colorado cinema.

Mahatma Gandhi once said “A nation will be judged by how it treats its weakest members”.

Mourners turned out today to say farewell to six children who died in a house fire in Britain.

Hungry Tea is just one of the exciting arts projects under way in unusual venues around Cork, writes Tina O’Sullivan

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

Health Minister James Reilly was told on his appointment that reducing the scale of the €650m National Children’s Hospital on the Mater site would impact on patient care.

The refusal of planning permission for the proposed new Children’s Hospital on the site of the Mater should be welcomed and should allow some sense to prevail and for the officials at the Department of Health to rise to the challenge and for the first time in their careers, admit they were wrong about forcing through the Mater site and just accept the site is not suitable and move on.

A retired garda working as a private investigator for Quinn Insurance has admitted asking his daughter-in-law, a former Revenue Commissioners employee, to look up files of people who had claims against the insurer.

PLANNING permission for a new National Children’s Hospital on a site adjacent to the Mater in Dublin city centre will be lodged within two weeks, the government confirmed yesterday.

THE decision to choose the Mater site in city centre of Dublin was made on both financial and clinical grounds, the Government said yesterday.

CONJOINED four-year-old Irish-Canadian twins, Krista and Tatiana Hogan, are making scientific history. The sisters share a mind.

An independent review is to be carried out into the project to build the new National Children’s Hospital on the site of the Mater Hospital in Dublin, it was announced today.

UN officials said they are still far short of reaching all of the Haiti earthquake victims estimated to need food.

Jennifer Lopez has aced her first triathlon, finishing the gruelling event in Malibu, California in under two and a half hours

CAMPAIGNERS opposed to the closure of Tallaght’s children’s hospital yesterday counted the live-saving minutes it takes to travel to its new proposed site.

Campaigners opposed to the closure of Tallaght’s children’s hospital today counted the live-saving minutes it takes to travel to its new proposed site.

THE chair of a group tasked with selecting a site for a new national children’s hospital has resigned because of a conflict of interest.

MEDICAL experts have sounded a note of caution after the world’s first human organ grown in a laboratory and transplanted successfully into a human was announced.

For the first time, US scientists have rebuilt a complex human organ, the bladder, using live tissue grown in the lab – a breakthrough that could hold exciting promise for one day regenerating ailing hearts and other organs.

Health service bosses are considering an offer from a private development consortium to build a new National Children’s Hospital on a non-profit basis, it emerged today.

A gun brought to a day care centre by an eight-year-old boy accidentally went off today, wounding a seven-year-old girl in the arm, police in Germantown, Maryland said.

Officials watched helplessly as looters around the city ransacked stores for food, clothing, appliances and guns.

A three-year-old boy was being treated in hospital today after plunging 40ft from a tower block in England.

TWO-YEAR-OLD twins from the Philippines born with their heads fused together were “strong and stable” after being separated in a marathon operation.

THE public has been given the chance to give 10,000 to the best Dublin community project of the past 10 years by voting in the Guinness Living Dublin Awards.