Madeline Mulqueen first made Ireland sit up and take notice when she played the sassy bridesmaid in Rubberbandits video Horse Outside.

Some of the money raised by the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland is going to funding staff in Irish hospitals - as the recruitment freeze in the health sector remains in force.

DAVID Spillane has never let his cystic fibrosis (CF) affect his life. “Even as a teenager, I was running with my local team and playing football with my local club,” says David, 23, an artist living in Tralee, Co Kerry.

A HANDHELD inhaler could revolutionise how cystic fibrosis (CF) patients take life-saving antibiotics.

A new hand-held inhaler designed to revolutionise how cystic fibrosis (CF) sufferers take life-saving antibiotic medicine has been launched.

THE Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland has welcomed the introduction of newborn screening for Cystic Fibrosis (CF).

PAUL NEWMAN only ever wanted to be remembered as someone who cared for others, Robert Forrester, president of Newman’s Own Foundation, claimed yesterday.

A LEADING cystic fibrosis campaigner whose personal circumstances led to a public outcry over continuing delays to vital treatment facilities, has lost her fight for life.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is next week to announce details of €10.5 million plans for providing new facilities in the mid-west for cystic fibrosis and Parkinson’s disease patients.

Hospital authorities today signed the contract for the construction of the long-awaited cystic fibrosis unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

THE Medical and Scientific Council of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland is made up of healthcare professionals and scientists who look after children and adults with cystic fibrosis in the Republic.

KATIE DRENNAN is always on the lookout for dirt. At this stage, the 20-year-old is not even conscious of doing it; she just scans a room automatically.

TÁNAISTE Mary Coughlan has insisted that the Government is committed to opening the delayed cystic fibrosis unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.

UP to 120 amateur cyclists are this morning beginning their second day of a gruelling charity cycle in an attempt to raise badly needed funds for Down Syndrome Ireland.

SINCE the economic downturn began in this wonderful country of ours a few years ago we have had Taoiseach Brian Cowen, ministers and every Fianna Fáil and Green party TD telling us how all the decisions that are being made are based on protecting the vulnerable in society.

WITH 30 cystic fibrosis sufferers on a waiting list for double lung transplant, the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI) had called for a state-sponsored programme to raise organ donation awareness.

THERE is no formal agency collecting information, research or statistics in relation to racism and integration.

A DEDICATED cystic fibrosis (CF) unit for Munster is expected to open by October 2010.

PARENTS are still being advised by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to treat children severely affected by swine flu with Tamiflu despite warnings about the drug’s side effects on children.

THE HSE must fast-track the development of a specialist cystic fibrosis (CF) unit at Cork University Hospital (CUH) to care for patients in Munster with the disease.

CONSTRUCTION chiefs are confident many builders will be interested in the state’s “build now, get paid later” offer to develop the 120-bed unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, which will include dedicated facilities for cystic fibrosis patients.

WELL now the gloves are really off. Anyone who thought that the Government had its citizens at the core of the fight against the recession should think again.

PROGRESS being made to improve treatment facilities for about 1,200 people in Ireland with cystic fibrosis (CF) was described as “frightfully slow” by a leading campaign group.

BUILDING will start this year on an isolation unit at the main treatment centre for adult cystic fibrosis sufferers in Dublin, the Health Service Executive announced yesterday.

THIRTY people with cystic fibrosis (CF) died last year, the highest death toll from the disease in 14 years.

THERE is no embargo on recruitment in the health service but there is an employment ceiling, a leading Department of Health official told yesterday’s meeting of the Joint Committee of Health and Children.

THESE are the shocking conditions that one cystic Fibrosis sufferer was forced to endure during a stay in hospital this week.

THE Kerry branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland is distributing organ donation awareness posters around the county.

PATIENTS who need a kidney transplant face a two-year wait just to get on the waiting list because of the dramatic fall-off in the number of procedures.

MARY HAND is waiting for a call that will turn her life around. The 23-year-old from Dingle, Co Kerry, has cystic fibrosis and needs a double lung transplant as soon as possible.

AUCTION site eBay.ie will partner with organisations to raise funds and public awareness for charitable causes, but only if the charity benefits from 100% of the proceeds.

PATIENTS attending A&E or staying overnight in public hospital beds have been hit with a €5 price hike on top of last year’s 22% increase.

NEWBORN babies are not being screened for Ireland’s most common life-threatening inherited disease, unlike in the North and the rest of the EU.

WERE it not for the outstanding work of voluntary groups, many people with disabilities would be facing a lot more suffering.

PEOPLE with cystic fibrosis (CF) in Ireland receive less care and die younger than in almost any other country in the developed world.

CYSTIC fibrosis sufferers could die if the State fails to protect them from potentially fatal hospital bugs, a campaign group warned yesterday.

CYSTIC FIBROSIS sufferers could catch potentially fatal hospital bugs because there are no isolation facilities for them, an independent review of services has warned.

Ireland's treatment services for cystic fibrosis are dangerously inadequate, according to a report commissioned by the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland.

More than 5,000 protesters took to the streets today in a last-ditch appeal to the Government to cut through the red tape they claim is preventing an urgent lung transplant in the UK.

AT least three Irish patients have been refused surgery at the British hospital which is refusing to offer Billy Burke a lung transplant operation, it has emerged.

BUSINESSES in Killorglin, Co Kerry, are to shut down for one hour in protest over Health Minister Micheál Martin's refusal to intervene to help a local man get a life-saving lung transplant.

IRELAND is ready to perform the first lung transplant operation here this summer.

LUNG transplant patients will no longer have to travel to Britain for life-saving surgery as the first such operation will take place here within weeks.

AN ARTIFICIAL liver made from living human cells could save the lives of thousands of people waiting on donor lists.