Organisation: St Jude’s’

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Substantial increase in youth training allowance rate required

THE recent article by Niall Murray, under the heading ‘Concern at youth jobless figures’, is depressing news for many of our young people. 

Place not your trust in multinationals

Prisoners must be given a fair chance

How the past can give us the key to the future

Prevention the best policy to tackle drugs menace

Nothing is being done to halt ‘creeping rural terror’

Patients left to suffer as appointments cancelled

YOUR report (August 12) that hundreds of patients’ appointments had been cancelled at Mercy University Hospital (MUH), Cork, because it can’t afford to open its emergency department and has been forced to close its outpatients department was devastating news for many people. It is a very worrying time for them as they wait for the letter to see a consultant.

Mon, 25 Aug, 2008

Health service drifting from crisis to crisis

IT IS a national scandal that at a time of unprecedented economic prosperity, there is a sickness at the heart of our public health service.

Wed, 30 Apr, 2008

Call to arms for community hospital

MUCH attention has been focused on hospital closures, but that obscures the reduction in community healthcare services.

Mon, 18 Feb, 2008

System failure

FROM recent reports we learn, not for the first time, that conditions in some of our prisons leave a lot to be desired.

Tue, 08 Jan, 2008

Health system fails those most in need

OUR health system is in dire need of investment.

Mon, 22 Oct, 2007

The measure of our society is the way we treat disabled people and their carers

CARERS work quietly and alone looking after loved ones, some of whom are mentally disabled, some physically disabled, and some of whom are both.

Mon, 25 Jun, 2007

Landowners subjected to divide-and-conquer tactics in presentation of route options

THERE is great concern at the way new bypass roads and motorways are being introduced. The system is dividing communities and parishes and is turning them against each other.

Mon, 22 May, 2006

Special needs: we have failed the carers

THE hallmark of any civilised society is the way in which it treats its weakest and most vulnerable members - the old, the very young, the ill and the handicapped.

Sat, 31 Dec, 2005

Show your support for good men who are suffering

THESE are trying times for the Catholic Church, both religious and laity. Many of those with whom I am in daily contact have told me that scandals involving priests and religious are a source of worry to the lay person and undoubtedly disturb their faith.

Sat, 12 Nov, 2005