Manager Fintan O'Connor revealed on Thursday that three players have the acute viral infection and there are fears that others in the squad may have contracted the disease.

Ireland v Italy Six Nations match in doubt amid global outbreak

A special meeting is to be held by councillors in North Cork to draw up a battleplan aimed at persuading the government to locate a new elective hospital for the county in Mallow.

There were 7,420 episodes of restrictive practices reported in 2017 and 7,464 in 2018.

An iconic Cork restaurant was one of a record 23 food outlets forced to close in November over hygiene concerns.

A local drug project looks set to close its doors if it cannot secure State funding by the end of the year.

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The number of surgeries for the treatment of morbid obesity should be increased six-fold to 1,000 a year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has said.

People with a disability who insisted on having a say about their care were threatened with having equipment or supports removed by the Health Service Executive (HSE), a watchdog has said.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has said 11 closure orders were issued to food businesses in June.

In penning this column over many years, there has been quite a bit of reaction to certain issues raised but nothing to come near the response to last week’s piece on cycling in Copenhagen.

A 24-hour long strike is to be held by more than 500 ambulance personnel nationwide on Friday in an ongoing row over union recognition.

The Taoiseach says the government will act on a damning report which has identified “systemic flaws in management” in how the cases of the abuse of three children while in foster care were handled by the HSE and Tusla.

Tusla, the child and family agency, has admitted there is “work yet to be completed” when it comes to comprehensive supports for children with disabilities in care after it and the HSE were criticised by the Ombudsman for Children.

The Child and Family Agency has admitted there is "work yet to be completed" when it comes to comprehensive supports for children with disabilities in care after it and the HSE were criticised by the Ombudsman for Children.

A 'black escalation level' had to be declared at Cork University Hospital (CUH) as there was such a severe backlog of patients in the emergency department.

Ireland has the lowest number of paediatric surgeons per capita when compared to other European countries, despite having the highest birth rate in Western Europe.

A man sustained around sixty stitches to his face after he was stabbed during a dispute between two families on Christmas Day, gardai said.

Counterfeit cosmetics could cost you your health, Ireland's medicines, the Health Products Regulatory Authority and the Health Service Executive has warned.

The planned new State-funded injecting centre for chronic heroin and cocaine addicts in Dublin’s inner city is to cater for around 60 addicts each day and is to open at 6.30 each morning.

The two external labs at the heart of the CervicalCheck controversy were paid a total of €12.4m in the past two years for their services.

The deputy head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) has defended hiring doctors to fill consultant posts when they are not in fact consultants.

Those bubbles might once have been sound bites, now they are the foam formed by a minister gulping for air, writes Gerard Howlin

Budgets allocated for the Health Service Executive (HSE) are unaffected by financial settlements paid out in cases of alleged negligence brought against the HSE, the solicitor for Vicky Phelan has said.

Staff at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross in Dublin may be called into the Public Accounts Committee.

Major shortcomings have been found by the State’s health watchdog in a Health Service Executive (HSE)-run centre for people with disabilities in Dublin.

Children’s rights groups have warned that many families still have to “fight the system” every day to secure adequate services, just as the foster carers of a girl abandoned at birth vied to get the full range of supports she needed.

More than 2,400 people spent time this week on a trolley or chair waiting for a hospital bed, nurses have said.

Mandatory reporting of child-abuse concerns began yesterday, with children’s rights groups saying it would work, while others, including social workers, expressed misgivings.

New figures from the Association of Optometrists (AOI) show almost 12,500 people were waiting for eye procedures at the end of August in Ireland.

Young doctors are bullying less-qualified colleagues, it has emerged.

Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has said that HPV vaccine scaremongers should leave medical advice to the medical professionals.