Mother of six faces charges of child neglect following blackout

A small development opportunity, at the foot of one of Ireland’s longest buildings, has come up for sale.

I write with regards to John Lannon’s letter(‘We helped cause the migrant crisis and so must be part of a solution’, Irish Examiner, September 15).

The High Court has cleared the way for a woman who claims that she was left with permanent health problems after using a steroid produced by Pfizer to sue the pharmaceutical giant for damages.

The appointment of the first female chief executive of Cork City Council was finally ratified last night.

The chief executive designate of Cork City Council is poised to have her appointment rubber-stamped on Monday.

History will be made when, for the first time, two women are appointed as bosses of local authorities in Cork and Kerry.

The remains of six nuns who cared for the dying, sick, and poor in a Cork town are to be exhumed and reinterred in their regional headquarters in Limerick.

He started in the most junior post in Cork County Council 32 years ago and has now risen to become its most senior official.

Just over half of the 3,063 children placed in care in Cork and Kerry over a 10-year period were placed there against their parents’ wishes.

The HSE is under fire for allowing buildings on a former mental hospital complex fall into total dereliction over the past decade.

A Limerick woman who became pregnant following a failed sterilisation and gave birth to a baby who died months later has been awarded €100,000 in High Court damages.

A woman who became pregnant after an alleged failed sterilisation and gave birth to a baby who died five months later has launched a High Court action for damages.

Master of political intrigue Charles Haughey believed the tables had been turned on him in the 1980s and suspected the air corps was being used to spy on his activities.

Marymount Hospice in Cork is under “huge pressures” in terms of admissions as it has been unable to open the extra 20 beds planned for it due to the recession.

THERE’S nothing orthodox about John Johansson.

A farmer who sued claiming he never got his wife’s brain back from Cork University Hospital following the postmortem after she died has lost his High Court action.

A farmer whose wife died over two months after undergoing brain surgery yesterday partially settled his action in the High Court.

IN SPITE of being a local Fianna Fáil heavyweight since the 1980s, Batt O’Keeffe’s chances of taking a seat in Cork North West this time round were looking particularly precarious.

THE construction cost of putting Cork’s super maternity hospital on a single site jumped by 76% to €53.6 million because it took the Government too long to reach a decision to build it.

THE head of one of the country’s largest local authorities has said it will have to set out a “realistic level of service” so that people realise what it can and can’t do with fewer resources.

CORK’S new city manager has warned that reduced funding and staff numbers will pose significant challenges in the years ahead.

ON February 9, 1989, Tabor Lodge opened its doors to addicted people and their families.

IT is a source of great consolation to see the defence of the Bastille that is Mallow General Hospital once again led by a Sherlock.

Tommy Barker looks at new luxury homes in a walk down memory lane.

THE recent report from the Inspector of Mental Health Services described “the dilapidated, desolate and depressing condition of wards in some of our mental health hospitals... ” This has been the case for many years.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have met with a representative of the Bishop of Cork and Ross in relation to donations made to Right of Place.

THE West Cork man who sexually abused at least 15 children — some when they were as young as two years old — was given a 20-year jail sentence yesterday with the last seven years suspended.

A TOTAL of 500 calls were made between January and November last year to a Health Service Executive helpline targeted specifically at farmers and people who live in rural areas of Cork and Kerry.

THE embattled Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe has been accused of “selling out” by failing to criticise the call to stop blood-testing in Cork.

BACHELOR farmers living in rural parts of the country are at increased risk of depression and suicidal thoughts, a HSE helpline has confirmed.

BERNIE Murphy’s life was a rollercoaster featuring extreme poverty and celebrity status.

THE suspension of the sex offenders programme at Arbour Hill Prison is a backward step in the prison service.

PLANS to build a special 100-bed community care unit for the elderly in Cork city are in doubt because of planning oversights almost a decade ago.

THE number 13 has proved lucky for children in a Co Cork school.

LISA CLANCY is the GAA’s new Director of Communications, replacing veteran press and PR handler Danny Lynch.

A FARM and rural helpline operated by the Health Service Executive South (Cork and Kerry) is receiving an average of 325 calls annually, according to preliminary findings of an evaluation of the service currently being conducted.

A CHILDREN’S home recommended for closure five years ago remains open despite being described as unsuitable and unsafe by inspectors.

A CHEST pain clinic set up to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac patients at Cork University Hospital is to close over Christmas.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) yesterday came under fire because of delays in providing community-based services for psychiatric patients in Kerry.

BERNIE Murphy caused a political sensation in June 1985 when he was elected an independent on Cork City Council, representing the north-central ward.

THE State was yesterday accused of taking its “foot off the pedal” in the fight against heroin, as Customs officers seized their biggest ever haul of the lethal drug.

A TUBERCULOSIS vaccine routinely given to newborns, with the exception of babies born in Cork, would have cost the Government little more than €16,500 when the Southern Health Board (SHB) sought funding in 2001.

LIVING quarters provided by the Defence Forces for serving members are under-used and sometimes abused, the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report has found.