Former Rehab Group chief executive Angela Kerins is seeking to extend the courts’ control over parliamentary proceedings in a “very significant and wholly unprecedented” way, lawyers for the Dáil public accounts committee have told the High Court.

Communities throughout West Cork will celebrate the region’s first ever ‘Feelgood Festival’, a mix of sports, good food, music and companionship later this week.

The health and social care services arm of the Rehab Group recorded an operating surplus of €782,000 last year, according to the latest accounts filed with the Companies Office.

The Rehab group has published the salaries of its staff which reveal that just 3% earn over €65,000 a year.

In the first of its type in the country, a mobile unit is on the roads of West Cork helping to promote good mental health.

A protest is being held by SIPTU members in Dublin today over the alleged failure of the Rehab Group to honour two outstanding Labour Court recommendations.

REHABCARE – the health and social care services subsidiary of broader disability services provider, the Rehab Group – recorded an operating deficit of €20,000 in 2009, according to latest accounts filed with the Companies Office.

THERESA HULME earns just slightly more than someone on the dole after giving up her job as a clinical psychiatric nurse manager to look after her intellectually disabled older sister.

NEARLY three-quarters of families experience crises brought about by the pressure of caring for a loved one who suffers from a rare health disorder, a new report has found.

Many gaps exist in support services for people with rare disorders, it will be claimed today.

IT says a lot about Bill Clinton that, four years after leaving office, he still commands the type of adulation that his successor can only dream of.

By virtue of the support of such an eminent person as former US President Bill Clinton for the nascent National Suicide Prevention Service (NSPS), the Government might eventually attach the importance to it that this subject warrants.

An all-Ireland strategy must be drawn up to stem the rising numbers of people becoming victims of suicide and self-harm, Gerry Adams claimed today.

SUICIDE in rural areas has been a hidden tragedy for a long time, a conference heard yesterday.

FOUR more people, including two teenagers, have taken their own lives in the south-east region since the triple drowning of a mother and her two daughters last weekend.

THE number of people who commit suicide has increased by 400% over the past 15 years, it emerged yesterday.

Former US President Bill Clinton will fly to Ireland next month to back RehabCare’s plans to develop a national suicide prevention programme.

Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome have an insatiable appetite and can wipe out the contents of a fridge in an hour. Claire O’Sullivan talks to one family whose children suffer from the disorder.

THE social changes brought about by the Celtic Tiger economy have contributed to rising suicide rates among young men.

BRENDAN BRADY only had enough money for a bottle of water, a tea and a croissant after spending more than €40 on a taxi as he desperately searched for his hotel on the day he disappeared.

A DISABLED Dublin man missing for five days in Paris survived on water as a massive manhunt was launched to find him.

A DISABLED support group has hired a private detective agency to help track down a Dublin man who went missing in Paris last week.

French police are confident a 42-year-old Dublin man, who disappeared in Paris four days ago, has been spotted, it emerged tonight.

I WANT to clear up any misunderstanding which may have arisen from a press conference held last week