Patients with demential and mental health difficulties are responding remarkably well to a series of programmes that help them become themselves again through song, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

As the city of Liverpool celebrates a sixth Champions League triumph for Jurgen Klopp's men, lifelong Liverpool fan Seán Cox sent his heartfelt congratulations to the club.

The fundraising target of €2 million has been reached by the Sean Cox fundraising campaign.

Aoife Moore Tens of thousands of fans descended on the Aviva Stadium last night to raise money for a fellow football fan.

Research has discovered three people a week, on average, sustain a life-changing spinal cord injury (SCI) in Ireland, the result of either accidental injury or degenerative disease.

"I had no symptoms beforehand. I woke up and it was the weirdest feeling. I saw my left hand on my left leg and thought it was someone else touching me."

A religious order that is supposed to hand over a lucrative Dublin property as part of the decade-old clerical abuse compensation deal has been ignoring since last summer State legal letters over repeated delays.

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Multi-tasking RTE star Kathryn Thomas recently added ‘mum’ to her impressive CV. Now back at work, she talks to

Fundraising efforts are underway for a young student who is paralysed from the chest down after he fell while out in the snow with friends prior to the red alert for Storm Emma earlier this month.

Fellows at this time of the year can often be found complaining that they have the world of trouble to contend with.

Six properties promised to the State by the Catholic Church in 2002 still remain outside full public ownership 15 years later, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

A cyclist who suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was thrown almost 2.5m in the air after he was hit by a van has settled his High Court action for €3m.

A trust fund set up for a West Cork jockey, who suffered horrific brain and back injuries following a fall, is to be the main beneficiary of the proceeds from a community awards ceremony tomorrow night.

An investigation is under way into why a HSE-funded care home failed to provide timely medical intervention to a disabled person who is now very ill — despite requests from the person’s mother to intervene on her adult child’s behalf.

Jamie Wall tried wheelchair tennis. He tried wheelchair basketball. He even tried a bit of writing. None were for him. None filled the void.

Trevor Martin has lived with a spinal cord injury for two years but he counts himself one of the lucky ones — he can still walk.

The bravery of a father-of-four who suffered a catastrophic stroke at the age of 47 has inspired friends to launch a fundraising campaign to help meet the substantial costs of his rehabilitation.

The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill is a crucial response to one of our most significant public health problems. Alcohol misuse claims three lives every day in Ireland and we all know someone who has been affected in a harmful way by alcohol use — it is all too common.

A survivor of the Berkeley balcony collapse which claimed the lives of six friends in the US has returned to her studies.

They say love needs no words, but Phil Scott’s declaration on St Valentine’s Day was worth a king’s ransom in light of the mammoth effort it took just to say “I love you”.

The hurling and the horses are two quintessential Irish pastimes — but the fastest field game on the planet got some serious horsepower when the sports were combined for the first time.

One reckless punch from a stranger changed Brian Hogan’s life forever, the Limerick man said at the launch of a campaign in Dublin yesterday urging the Government to invest in neuro-rehabilitation services for people who have a brain injury.

The family of a paraplegic Cork teenager who sustained severe spinal injuries when she fell backwards off a flat roof at a nightclub has expressed concern that her recovery will be hampered by a lack of appropriate facilities at Cork University Hospital.

Blarney Golf Men’s Club who ran a fundraising golf classic in conjunction with the Evening Echo for journalist Deirdre O’Reilly from Bandon, Co Cork who suffered a massive stroke on December 22, 2013. 

A new 120-bed building has been announced for the National Rehabilitation Hospital site in south Dublin.

Journalism student Micheál O’Mahony meets former model and actress, Olivia Cronin, whose incredible journey following an acquired brain injury reveals a brave woman whose determination to be a victor over - rather than a victim of - her fate is an example to us all.

It was, in Pádraig Hannafin’s own words, “a step in the right direction’’.

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A truck driver’s decision to pass a cyclist on a bad stretch of road, at a time when he knew his lorry was in bad condition, beggared belief, a judge said yesterday.

The devastated parents of a brain injured student plan to set up a rehabilitation unit here, writes Caroline O’Doherty

DAMIEN O’CARROLL was living the dream in Australia until the nightmare happened.

While the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) is at the centre of the top-ups controversy, it is just one of 13 voluntary hospitals and agencies paying bosses extra salaries from “privately funded” sources.

The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

SIPTU has spoken out against the controversial top-up salaries being paid to senior executives at some of the country's hospitals.

Senior voluntary hospital and agency bosses are receiving “at least €3.224m” per year in 36 hidden extra fees on top of their six-figure salaries.

AFTER he broke his neck falling down the stairs at home 20 years ago, doctors feared Tony Hassett would never walk again. But the 59-year-old Nenagh-based sports coach defied medical opinion and is not only walking but is also a basketball coach.

A trust fund has been set up for a 24-year-old Corkman who is determined to walk again despite being told by doctors this will never happen.