A well-known GAA figure has spoken about the mystery illness which has forced him to stand aside from his position as chairman of the Limerick club Na Piarsaigh and pull out as a candidate from the upcoming local elections.

Pre-tax profits at a private hospital co-owned by beef baron Larry Goodman and developer Sean Mulryan last year rose by 4% to €2.66m.

A conference taking place in Galway has heard how 100,000 Irish people are suffering from sleep apnea.

Two brothers in their early 20s from Limerick have joined the list of the 250 richest people in Ireland.

Anti-abortion group Youth Defence has rejected criticism of the use of controversial images in its campaign ads and compared them to the publications of corpses in Nazi death camps.

A privately owned hospital in Galway has recorded combined pre-tax profits of €31.9m over the past two years.

People with private health insurance who live in the south are waiting longer for some orthopaedic services than those in the public system.

In relation to a site for the new children’s hospital, Health Minister James Reilly said “everything is on the table”. Here are the current options facing the group tasked with identifying a location.

Private hospitals carried out more than two-thirds of the surgeries involving the use of two defective hip implant devices as a result of which almost 300 patients in Ireland require a second operation.

THE country’s newest and most advanced private hospital will close within months unless the VHI provides health cover.

A consultant gynaecologist has lost a High Court challenge against her suspension by the Medical Council over her treatment of three patients, including a woman who later died.

The High Court will rule later this month on a consultant gynaecologist's appeal against a one-year suspenion imposed by the Medical Council over treatment she provided to a number of her patients, including a woman who later died.

THE developers of a new €90 million private hospital in Cork have signed an €8.5 million deal to equip it with the world’s most advanced diagnostic machines.

A CONFERENCE in Rome yesterday observed, via satellite link, a revolutionary hip replacement operation at Mayo General Hospital.

A doctor has been investigated by the Irish Medical Council after he declined to treat an unmarried couple for infertility.

THE operators of a €90 million private hospital due to open in Cork this summer have signed a €746,000 ($1 million) deal for the installation of an advanced IT system.

THERE was undue delay in treating a woman after undergoing a gynaecological procedure, an expert told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry.

A CONSULTANT gynaecologist told a Medical Council fitness to practice inquiry she would carry a horrendous burden for the rest of her life because of the death of a patient in her care.

CONSTRUCTION giant John Sisk & Son paid out a dividend of more than €90 million last year as pre-tax profits fell by €2.5m.

SURGERIES for morbidly obese people here could cost the public almost €6 million every 12 months within the next decade, it has been claimed.

IT WAS an entire systems failure that cost Ann Moriarty her life, patient advocate Rebecca O’Malley stressed yesterday.

LESS than a year after receiving the all-clear for breast cancer, Ann Moriarty died, leaving behind a devastated husband and teenage son.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

A €110 MILLION state-of-the-art private hospital, expected to create 400 jobs in Cork’s western suburbs, was granted planning permission yesterday.

THE accuracy of a survey which gave a clean bill of health to six hospitals, claiming no patients had hospital-acquired infections, has been challenged by patients and politicians.

THE founder of the famous Blackrock Clinic last night suffered a major setback to his proposals to build a multi-million euro private hospital in Cork when it emerged he has been refused planning permission.

THE founder of the Blackrock Clinic is behind a consortium planning to build a multi-million euro private hospital in Cork.

A NEW private hospital under construction in Limerick wants to link up with the Mid-Western Regional Hospital and fulfil a government aim of having public and private hospitals work side-by-side.

WHEN it opened two years ago, bearing none of the down-trodden, overcrowded hallmarks of our public hospital system, the splendour of the Galway Clinic drew justifiable comparisons with a luxury five-star hotel.

FOR many reasons, some related to religion, there is a feeling among people with infertility that IVF is not the magic answer for everyone.

Seán McCárthaigh and Evelyn Ring

THE number of private hospitals is set to increase by 50% with a raft of developments underway.

PATIENTS will be charged up to €200 to attend the country’s first private casualty department which opens on Monday.