Every year, around 150,000 children walk through the doors of the children's hospital and some of them got to meet with Ryan who loved telling stories and making jokes with them.

Twin brothers Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are promoting Toy Story 4 T-shirts specially produced to raise funds for Crumlin Children's Hospital.

Fundraising for good causes has come a long way since the days of the charity walk. It is now a more adventurous undertaking, as round-Ireland swimmer Alan Corcoran and global cyclists Paddy Flynn and Daithí Harrison are proving.

The paediatric service at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) in Tallaght and at Crumlin Hospital will be impacted by the planned industrial action by SIPTU tomorrow, Children’s Health Ireland have said.

The mum of a toddler who suffers a rare heart condition is appealing for more awareness of "invisible" conditions and a push to highlight the importance of children's organ donations.

Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin is to review all transcriptions of a cancer gene test after what it believes was a "transcription error" in one case.

A nine-year-old girl who cannot walk or talk and who has a profoundly curved spine cannot get on a waiting list for spinal surgery until she undergoes an MRI, scheduled for April 2019.

Eighty-three Irish children have been sent to England in the past six years to be psychologically assessed for confusion over their gender identity.

Artist Siobhain Steele shows her mettle with ceramics, says Aileen Lee.

Surgery, scheduled for next week, has been cancelled for a schoolgirl whose crippling scoliosis condition forced Minister for Health Simon Harris to admit he was ashamed.

Helen O’Callaghan hears of top care at Crumlin Hospital

A young hero who saved a woman from drowning, a compassionate teenager who had endured much in recent years, and two brothers who have battled against the odds with their health, are among those honoured in the West Cork Garda Youth Awards.

Ireland’s elite show jumpers are to gather in Dublin next month to formulate a strategy for championship success in what Darragh Kenny has described as a “hugely positive” development.

Irish rugby star Rob Kearney was happy to get booked for the children at Crumlin.

AT Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, the objective is always to give every sick child every chance every time.

Colourful silage fields will spread the message of support for children’s hospitals and raising breast cancer awareness this summer.

I ran out of songs I enjoyed singing so I began writing my own.

Written and composed by Irish songwriter, Brian Flanagan, ‘The Rising’ is performed by Michael Flatley who narrates a hauntingly beautiful depiction of the heroes of the 1916 Easter Rising.

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Ben Herbert was only five years old when he was diagnosed with high-risk B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

A judge yesterday refused a €28,000 settlement offer to a 10-year-old schoolboy whose nose was fractured during an accident at a summer camp.

A damning report on HSE services reveals a litany of criticisms, overpayments in regions, luxury hotel expense claims and huge amounts in uncollected debts.

A surgeon’s “slip of the pen” should not have been the basis for him being subjected to the “extremely threatening ordeal” of a public inquiry by the Medical Council, the Supreme Court has said.

Major investment is needed to make Dublin's Crumlin Children's Hospital the centre for heart operations in Ireland, according to an expert report.

A former paediatric surgeon struggled to put on hospital gloves and was unable to write clinical notes, a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry has heard.

A founder of a custom-built ambulance service set up specifically to provide transport for very sick children has described as "mindless" the theft of €800 worth of equipment from the vehicle while it was on display at the National Ploughing Championships.

RTÉ broadcaster Brenda Donohue today presented the 2014 Hidden Hearing Heroes Awards honouring those who made a significant, and often unheralded, contribution to society.

Dermot Dooley has never really allowed himself to consider the thought, but under different circumstances he would be on the sideline in Nowlan Park this evening.

"A touch of John Daly" was how Graeme McDowell described the golf swing of little Cillian Wade.

This week social media - driven by ordinary people - once again wielded its power and achieved something extraordinary in the process.

A request by the HSE to voluntary health agencies to confirm they are operating in line with public pay policy has been largely ignored to date, with just five out of 43 voluntary bodies responding.

A celebrity chef, a rugby legend, and some GAA stars of today and yesteryear are set to go head-to-head in a Total Wipeout-style family fun day for charity this weekend.

It’s the fifth year of a charity cycle that makes getting to Laois a fun ride that beats the traffic. Richard Fitzpatrick reports

Dublin's Crumlin hospital has confirmed it has made contact with the parents of 15 out of 18 of the children involved in a contamination scare at Our Lady's Hospital.

The parents of inspirational teenager Donal Walsh are determined to keep his memory alive by continuing to spread his message, which touched a chord not only in Ireland, but around the world.

A Limerick rugby club aims to continue with young cancer victim Donal Walsh’s plans for fundraising for a children’s hospital.

Women concerned they may have the same life-threatening cancer gene as actress Angelina Jolie are having to wait too long for testing, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has warned.

Chronic funding failures mean Irish women at risk of the same breast cancer as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie must wait 18 months to see if they have the same life-threatening gene.

SPEAKING on TV last month, Dónal Walsh came to national prominence, and not before time.

He might have been the inspiration behind Munster’s tremendous Heineken Cup quarter-final win in London yesterday, but Paul O’Connell admitted last night he’s in the tuppence ha’penny place compared to his own hero, terminally ill teenager Donal Walsh.

Kinsale Golf Club received the Munster Club of the Year award at the recent Munster Branch GUI AGM.