Five patients who were in the Temple Street PICU have been transferred to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.

Irish rugby star Rob Kearney was happy to get booked for the children at Crumlin.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday it was a “great regret and a great tragedy for the country” that the planned building of the new national children’s hospital took so long.

More than 200 cyclists have signed up for a biking trip this weekend which hopes to raise more than €150,000 to help doctors provide surgery to children with scoliosis and other health problems.

Around 300 cyclists are being sought for a biking trip from Cork to Dublin next month which is expected to raise more than €150,000 for a charity offering free surgery to children with scoliosis and other health problems.

Figures show thousands of children are waiting for extended periods of up to four years to see specialists

Phone company Three has been spared a criminal conviction for over-charging customers.

The triathlon is a fun challenge, with the sole purpose of raising as much funds as possible for charity.

A Romanian surgeon who had difficulty ordering tests for sick children and who it was alleged did not know how to scrub up properly for theatre has been ordered to notify the Medical Council if he ever returns to Ireland.

The repetitive interviewing of a child who is believed to have been sexually abused can cause confusion and contaminate the child’s story, according to experts speaking at a national conference yesterday.

"A touch of John Daly" was how Graeme McDowell described the golf swing of little Cillian Wade.

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin has said it categorically supports the planned home of the new national children’s hospital after one of its senior doctors spoke out against it.

A doctor has told an inquest into the death of a young boy that there was a delay in starting dialysis at a hospital as the boy’s father had not brought the dialysis machine with him.

Make sure the kids feel freakishly fabulous this Halloween with Aldi’s costumes (€4.99) and face paints (€2.79).

The HSE’s latest performance report has admitted an additional €130m of “cost and cash measures” will be needed over the next three months if it is to break even by year’s end.

A Wicklow man who has been found guilty of killing his ex-fiancée’s three-and-a- half month old baby seven years ago has been sentenced to 11 years.

A Wicklow man has been found guilty of killing his ex-fiancée’s three-and-a-half-month-old baby seven years ago.

A judge has told the jury in the trial of a man accused of killing his ex-fiancée’s baby seven years ago, to approach the case "without hostility or prejudice".

A man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby seven years ago has no previous convictions, a court has heard.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby has heard that the pattern of haemorrhages in the child’s eyes in conjunction with brain trauma was “consistent with non-accidental injury.”

A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that injuries on the child were consistent with abusive head trauma.

A paediatrician has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby, that the child had suffered severe brain damage.

The State Pathologist has told the trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancee’s baby, that trauma suffered by the infant “highly suggested a shaking incident”.

Hospital units treating child victims of sexual abuse are concerned over a growing number of requests for therapy notes, especially for use in court cases.

A 700% rise in the number of sick children left lingering in paediatric emergency departments has been recorded by senior medics.

MEADHBH McGivern’s father has said that he was shocked at a report’s finding that no single body had overall responsibility for co-ordinating travel plans for patients requiring transplant surgery in Britain.

FORMER Tipperary All-Ireland winning hurler Michael Cleary will pedal a go-kart through Tipperary later this week to raise funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin.

TRIPLE All-Ireland winning hurling star, Joe Deane, launched the sixth Musgrave SuperValu Centra Triathlon yesterday.

Two teenagers were tonight being questioned in connection with a fire attack on a car in Limerick which left two children fighting for their lives.

A fire attack on a car that left two Limerick children fighting for their lives was an incomprehensible act of savagery, Defence Minister Willie O’Dea said tonight.