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We ignore the fact that most of the services are... state services with a different sign on the door, writes Terry Prone

A woman suffering from anorexia took her own life after a referral for her urgent admission to hospital “went astray”.

A remarkable collection of paintings by a Franciscan brother who devoted most of his life to art has gone on permanent display at Cork’s largest hospital.

Drastic cuts in therapy services for “the most vulnerable children” are causing stress and anxiety to parents.

A company director who was served with legal proceedings last Saturday checked himself into St John of God’s the following day, the High Court has heard.

If the Duffy family are forced to sell their home to pay €500,000 in legal costs after losing a case against the National Maternity Hospital, it could cost the State €2m to care for their severely disabled son, Mark, for the rest of his life.

OFFALY hurling duo Brian Mullins (pictured) and Ger Oakley have confirmed their retirement from the inter-county scene.

PEOPLE are being treated solely for an addiction to legal drugs on sale in alternative lifestyle shops, the head of the addictions unit at St John of God’s hospital has said.

INTRODUCING warning symbols on airbrushed body images to protect young people from developing eating disorders would be “a very welcome” development, a leading adolescent psychiatrist has said.

NO national public beds are dedicated in hospitals to people with eating disorders.

THE prime function of a government is to protect its citizens. In the circumstances, Labour TD Pat Rabbitte has highlighted the case of Leslie McCabe, a 16-year-old Down’s syndrome girl who has been left on the waiting list for speech therapy.

THE family of a woman whose husband’s trial for her murder opened at the Central Criminal Court yesterday have told the jury that the deceased was not suicidal at the time of her death.

THE mother of a suicidal Wexford teenage girl who survived a six-year litany of sexual abuse has criticised the health authorities for offering her daughter a bed in an adult psychiatric hospital.

Student nurses at a hospital in Co Louth are to protest today in a row over travel expenses.