Helping patients come to terms with their situation is just one of many care services provided by the staff of Our Lady’s Hospice, writes Alison O’Connor.

Dr Harty Cup final

Our Lady’s Templemore 3-14 Thurles CBS 1-10: Our Lady’s Templemore haven’t tasted Harty Cup glory since winning the competition for the one and only time in the school’s history back in 1978.

LAST year’s runners up Our Lady’s Templemore eased into the last four of the Harty Cup with a ten-point victory over local rivals Thurles CBS in front of a huge crowd at The Ragg this afternoon.

AT Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, the objective is always to give every sick child every chance every time.

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, yesterday unreservedly apologised in the High Court to a four-year-old boy left profoundly brain-damaged after an operation when he was a baby.

A mother whose daughter has a serious heart condition was so worried that an ambulance would not get her to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, on time that she moved 60km.

The HSE has yet to decide whether to move 28 residents from a disability centre after health watchdog Hiqa secured a court order over serious fire safety concerns.

St Vincent’s Cork 39 Our Lady’s Castleblayney 17: St Vincent’s picked up Cork’s second win at the U14 All Ireland Schools Finals week with a 39-17 win over Our Lady’s Castleblayney yesterday.

Politicians have expressed disappointment and a sense of helplessness at a decision by the National Ambulance Service to cut the number of ambulances based at a Co Tipperary town.

HAVE you heard about the ‘Chinese walls’ in hospitals? These walls separate tranches of money gathered for the functioning and upkeep of the hospitals, it was revealed last week.

It’s a case of do or die for last year’s defeated finalists Our Lady’s Secondary School, Templemore and CBS High School, Clonmel in today’s Dr Harty Cup tie in Cashel.

The family of Katy French have welcomed the open verdict returned at the inquest at Meath Coroner’s Court into the death of the model.

Our Lady’s Templemore (Tipperary) 1-11 Dungarvan Colleges (Waterford) 2-21

Dual All-Ireland minor medallists are rare, making it an even smaller club those to have achieved that as well as winning a Dr Harty Cup.

Holders Coláistí na nDéise made it two wins from two in this year’s Dr Harty Cup as the enjoyed a 3-12 to 0-11 Group D victory over St Caimin’s of Shannon in Tipperary town yesterday.

Our Lady’s Secondary School from Belmullet in Mayo snatched victory in the dying minutes to knock reigning champions Coláiste Íosaef, Kilmallock out of the All-Ireland.

CASTLETROY College participated in the Dr Harty Cup for the first time yesterday afternoon and were left celebrating after an injury-time point by Ed Doyle secured a 1-14 to 2-10 victory over Kerry Colleges in their Group D clash in Feenagh.

SWEETS are evil. Sweets are bad. You are putting your children at risk by letting them eat sweets.

MIDLETON CBS rescued their Dr Harty Cup campaign when Dillon Cahill grabbed a dramatic injury-time goal to force a draw against Our Lady’s Templemore in a pulsating quarter-final clash in Cahir yesterday afternoon.

Thurles CBS v Blackwater College: Clonmel (All games 2.30pm throw-in)

CHAMPIONS Ardscoil Rís opened the defence of their Dr Harty Cup title in fine style with a comfortable 3-22 to 0-8 win over Waterford Colleges in Tipperary Town.

ONE of the country’s top paediatric consultants has admitted he was responsible for a “human error” which led to the wrong kidney being removed from a young boy at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin in 2008.

Thurles CBS 0-11 Our Lady’s (Templemore) 0-5

ONE of the country’s top children’s hospitals has taken full responsibility for wrongly removing a child’s healthy kidney during surgery.

The parents of a child who had a healthy kidney wrongly removed at the country’s leading children’s hospital repeatedly questioned surgeons’ plans, it emerged tonight.

A BLISTERING start provided the springboard for a second group stage victory for reigning Harty Cup champions De La Salle College at the expense of Our Lady’s CBS (Templemore) at New Inn yesterday.

Our Lady’s, Templemore 0-14 Doon CBS 1-8

DAVID HOBBS will celebrate his 100th Irish cap this weekend, and become the youngest player in Irish Hockey history to do so.

Our Lady’s, Templemore 3-20 Glanmire CS 1-9

SOLICITOR and multi-millionaire businessman, Noel Smyth, has repeated his proposals to fund the construction of the proposed new national children’s hospital, regardless of its location.

Thurles CBS 2-11 Our Lady's, Templemore 0-13

Our Lady’s, Templemore 1-14 Thurles CBS 2-11

THE Government’s plans to establish a state-of-the-art national children’s hospital on a new site at Dublin’s Mater Hospital has received a major setback with the decision of Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin not to participate in its development.

DEFENDING champions Midleton CBS have a must-win game with Our Lady’s in the Credit Union Dr Harty Cup at New Inn today (1.30pm).

Midleton CBS 2-13 Our Lady’s, Templemore 2-8

Our Lady’s Templemore 1-10 Carrigaline CS 0-13

WITH Thurles CBS safely through to the knockout stages of the Harty Cup after Christmas, the battle is on for the second spot in Section C.

RUNNING away to sea came with parental approval when some very special children temporarily joined the ranks of the Irish Navy.