A drive-thru Covid 19 test facility is understood to have opened in Cork city with medical staff in protective clothing swabbing referred persons through their car windows.

“We are making this an election issue. We will not tolerate the cuts. We simply can’t. Already the service is not sufficient."

Adults with intellectual disability are reduced to “couch-surfing” between family members while waiting to access residential care at the Cope Foundation, where pressure on services is so severe that it needs an extra €34m per annum, according to its chief executive.

A man who struggled with depression and addiction says that learning to sail helped him navigate through a dark and difficult time.

A community hospital that has served the people of Cobh for more than 100 years is under imminent threat of closure, with just five weeks’ funding left to keep the service running, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin pointed to the fact that 864 children are awaiting an assessment in Cork.

Concerns about how two external service providers were engaged to mitigate "significant service and governance risks" at a Cork-based service for people with autism are among the findings of a series of HSE internal audits.

"He told me he was unhappy because he was so bold all the time and he wanted to go to heaven so he wouldn't make me sad anymore."

Three out of four mental health centres inspected failed to reach acceptable standards of cleanliness and maintenance, the inspector of mental health services has revealed.

Parents of children as young as six months are being encouraged to get them involved in the first free health and wellbeing festival of its kind in Cork this weekend.

Families of adults with disabilities are experiencing “a real crisis every single day” due to the lack of residential care places in Cork.

Radon gas barriers were breached in a state-of-the-art mental health facility in Co Kerry which opened in July, the HSE confirmed.

Construction of a €3.44m community hospital has been completed — but locals have to raise funds to build a dayroom for the facility.

Nurses and the HSE are at odds over a reported critical staff shortage at St Finbarr’s Hospital in Cork.