A nursing home assisting people with dementia in Cobh, Co Cork, was dirty when inspectors from the States's health services watchdog paid a visit.

Picture the scene: in sparkling sunshine out of doors, a young couple are joined together in matrimony. The celebrant inclines her head to fasten their hands together, the bright red plumage of her hat matching the bride’s shimmering lipstick.

An Open Day at Cuskinny Gardens will be held tomorrow Sunday April 24 in aid of Cobh Community Hospital at Cuskinny House, Cobh. Admission is €5 and there will be plants for sale on the day along with homem

In the final part of our series on how the vulnerable in our society are treated, Sharon Ní Conchúir says fears abound that public nursing homes are slowly being phased out.

THE head of the organisation which represents most of the country’s private and voluntary nursing homes has accused the state of “bargain-hunting” from his members.

ON behalf of Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) members, I would like to echo the concerns expressed by the Board of Cobh Community Hospital in your report headlined ‘Friends of Cobh hospital plead to keep it open’ (July 16).

THE chairperson of one of the country’s largest care homes for the elderly has warned that it will not be able to care for its residents “properly or safely” under new Government funding arrangements.

THE board of an under-threat community hospital is due to meet this morning to discuss its future.

A COMMUNITY hospital which provides long-term care to more than 30 elderly people is facing closure under new Government funding arrangements for nursing homes.