The alarm goes off and I’m up and out the door by 6am. I live in Meath and commute by bus, which drops me at the door of the Mater. It’s a 40-minute trip.

As the number of patients on trolleys who are awaiting a hospital bed increased to 575 yesterday, the HSE warned that the nasty flu season is far from over.

Almost half of the children on hospital trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a bed, it has emerged.

Kitty O’Leary is the nurse manager of the endoscopy suite at Mater Private Hospital, Cork. She is also a specialist nurse in intestinal disease.

Karuppiah Mahalingam, orthopaedic surgeon, Mater Private Hospital, Cork

HILARY Spillane, specialist orthopaedic nurse at Mater Private Hospital, Cork.

Mater Private Hospital together with Dukes Coffee Company and KSG at the City Gate Plaza, Mahon, Cork are organising a joint ‘Drink Tea for MND’ day to help support a very worthy cause.

Specialist heart nurse Padraig Denn says it’s important to respond quickly to early warning signs.

Roselyn Raj is the nurse manager of theatre recovery at Mater Private Hospital, Cork. She recently experienced a role reversal when she underwent an operation herself.

Joan Fahy is a senior nurse at Mater Private Hospital, Cork. One of her specialties is haemovigilance.

Every minute that passes, the chance of survival from cardiac arrest drops by 10%.

Dr Sarah Landers says smoking is the single biggest cause of disease and death in Ireland.

With Daffodil Day just a week away, it’s that time of year again to highlight the truth about skin cancer.

Heart disease is still the number one cause of death in Cork.

Tahir Khan, consultant general and vascular surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork, explains abdominal hernia, its causes, surgical management, and aftercare.

A 24-year-old woman died of complications arising from a hairball that extended more than 25cm from her stomach into her intestines, an inquest heard.

A 24-year-old woman died of complications arising from a hairball that extended more than 25cm from her stomach into her intestines, an inquest heard. 

“THE prostate is a specialised gland normally about the size of a walnut located between the bladder and the penis. A tube called the urethra runs through the centre of the prostate, from the bladder to allow urine flow out of the body. The gland produces a secretion that nourishes and protects sperm,” says Mr Paul Hegarty, a surgeon who specialises in conditions relating to the urinary tract and reproductive system (urology). 

An international cancer trial has opened in Ireland investigating the risks for young women who had breast cancer becoming pregnant.

Myths around cancer trials need to be dispelled to save lives says consultant oncologist Catherine Kelly at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Mater Private Hospital. She was speaking at an event last night in Dublin.

It’s being described as a “breakthrough towards an artificial pancreas” and it has certainly transformed the life of diabetic Mary Vaughan.

A man with whom 500 staff refused to co-operate following his appointment as chief operations manager to a Limerick hospital group has been appointed chief operations manager at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork.

He’s a priest known for breaking the mould so it’s somehow befitting that Fr Liam Kelleher was one of the first to undergo a novel form of surgery with an equally novel name — the ‘bikini hip replacement’.

The Mater Private hospital in Cork will hold open interviews over Christmas to recruit over 25 nurses as part of its ongoing expansion.

The chief executive of Cork’s newest hospital has said that management at the facility can foresee further significant job announcements in the coming years.

Some 150 jobs are being created by the Mater Private hospital in the Mahon area of Cork - as part of a €70m investment.

At least 100 jobs are expected to be announced at the Mater Private Hospital in Mahon, Cork today.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to make a significant jobs announcement when he visits the Mater Private Hospital in Cork this morning.

The Vhi has signed a five-year deal with the Mater Private Hospital in Cork which will allow the extension of cardiology services and pave the way for the development of an integrated heart and vascular centre.

Cremations are taking over from burials at funerals in Dublin as they are less than a third of the price of a cemetery plot, according to a new TV documentary.

ARE you an owl or a lark? Most of us fall into one or the other category and think little of the implications but the time you snuggle down under your duvet say scientists could have a huge effect on your life.

A major draft blueprint to guide the development of one of Cork’s busiest tech and retail hubs over the next 20 years is due to go on public display.

A family murdered in a suspected revenge attack may have been the victims of mistaken identity, a neighbour has said.

YOU can’t do without it — yet your lifeline to friends, family and Facebook could be really damaging your skin.

The chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee is calling for an audit of private and public hospitals to examine exactly what private patients are being billed for after it emerged that one woman paid €1,175 for a 90-minute visit to a private hospital in Cork.