Patients struggling to cope with a cancer diagnosis at the Mercy University Hospital will have immediate access to a range of supports under plans to build a new cancer care centre.

Kerry football legend turned dance star Aidan O’Mahony waltzed into a Cork hospital with garda colleagues yesterday with a special presentation to boost the spirits of children undergoing cancer treatment.

Comedian Alan Shortt and Irish race walker Alex Wright will soon be stepping out to support a cancer charity walk in Cork.

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Some bowel cancer patients will be spared the ravaging effects of chemotherapy thanks to a breakthrough genetic test that can predict whether their cancer is likely to return.

Around 8,500 runners pounded the streets around Cork City yesterday for the Evening Echo Mini Marathon, with more smiles than grimaces in evidence as they poured across the finishing line.

Help is needed to upgrade the Care of the Elderly Ward at the Mercy University Hospital, and the public can play their part by buying raffle tickets.

A teenager’s inspired make-over of a hospital storeroom will help make treatment for young cancer patients a little easier to bear.

The 2014 Irish Open proved a major hit in Cork with more than 100,000 spectators visiting Fota Island Resort, and it also left a lasting legacy in the region with the tournament raising €50,000 for its Official Charity, Mercy Hospital Foundation and its Kids + Teens Appeal.

Soccer legend John Hartson, who beat cancer, has urged men to check their tackle regularly in a bid to catch signs of testicular cancer early.

The Mercy Hospital Foundation has been named the official charity of this year’s Irish Open golf championship at Fota Island in Cork.

Designed to ease patient anxiety and deliver significant improvements in the quality of the images produced, the new €2.5m CT suite at the Mercy University Hospital is a perfect blend of the comfortable and the clinical.

It’s where she examined her first cases of piles, boils, warts, and haemorrhoids. And yesterday Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies presenter, Dr Pixie McKenna, was back in the Irish hospital where she trained to back its ambitious €3m fundraising drive.

I had heard of the gardens at Ashton Grove and had met the owners from time to time and discussed what they were recreating on the outskirts of Glanmire, but I was not quite aware of the scale of what they had undertaken.

The Cork jerseys will bear the slogan ‘Testicular Cancer Appeal’ in Saturday's Allianz Football League opener against Dublin at Croke Park.

RTÉ presenter Miriam O’Callaghan is urging women to get their men talking about their health.

Tara Sheridan has beaten cancer four times and is preparing to go naked for her third “Dip in the Nip” in a campaign to raise funds to help fight the disease.

Gardaí, nurses, firemen and paramedics have responded to a busy city hospital’s call for help.

The operator of a bingo hall in Cork has sued gardaí and the State for damages arising from a number of allegedly “vindictive” garda raids on the premises.

A COMPANY operating a bingo hall yesterday spoke of its “enormous relief” after the High Court declared its activities were lawful.

THE first numbers were last night finally called at the 1,000-seater Cork bingo hall raided by gardaí on Tuesday evening just 30 minutes before it was due to open.

THE controversial 1,000-seater bingo hall in Cork city will open for business tonight after securing a temporary High Court order.

JUST half an hour before it was due to open for the first time last night, gardaí raided a new 1,000-capacity bingo hall in Cork and seized all the bingo books.

PLANS to operate charity fundraising games at the Rock Bingo Centre in Togher have been dogged by controversy for a number of weeks.

THREE young friends who cycled 80 kilometres before climbing Ireland’s highest mountain for charity were left devastated after a hostel in a leading tourist town turned them away for being “late”.

A CANCER survivor who has seen his father and son diagnosed with the disease is spearheading a fundraising event to help a leading cancer treatment centre.

AS A two-time world martial arts champion, he has faced some tough competition in the ring.