The Religious Sisters of Charity says it is confident of a “positive outcome” on the legal transfer of its land shares for the building of the new National Maternity Hospital.

All publicly funded hospitals will be expected to provide legal health services, including women’s health services, says Health Minister Simon Harris.

A deal has not been reached on who will build, own and run the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) despite planners giving it the go-ahead this week.

Planning permission has been granted to build the new National Maternity Hospital on the campus of St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

A national march has been organised in protest against the “religious ownership” of the new National Maternity Hospital.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has supported Health Minister Simon Harris in his call for “breathing space” to resolve the new national maternity hospital crisis, saying talks are needed to put in place a “legally waterproof situation”.

The problem is we all know the Church plays a very long game, and sticks, religiously, to its beliefs, writes Alison O’Connor

The former master of the Coombe has called on the Sisters of Charity to voluntarily hand over the land where the new national maternity hospital is set to be built to the Government in a bid to end the controversy over the site.

Plans for a new maternity hospital are back on track after the board of Holles Street overwhelmingly voted in favour of re-endorsing the deal struck last November that paved the way for its transfer to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital at Elm Park.

Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse.

The Department of Health’s secretary general failed to tell Health Minister Simon Harris of serious concerns over the independence of the new national maternity hospital when they were raised in May 2016.

Minister for Health Simon Harris said he does not believe there is a need to revisit the November agreement which was supposed to pave the way for the transfer of the national maternity hospital to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital in Elm Park.

Money owed by the Sisters of Charity to the redress scheme did not feature in discussions to move the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s Hospital campus, it has emerged.

The State’s investment in the proposed €300m national maternity hospital will be protected and it will be free of religious interference, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

Eight hospitals, five of them taxpayer-funded, are under investigation amid claims staff got gifts from a medical supplies firm in return for contracts and commercially sensitive information.

Rehab has said it cannot force its former chief executive, Angela Kerins, to appear before next week’s meeting of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee because she no longer works for the charity, as of today.

A row over whether hospital consultants contracted to work in the public service should be allowed to continue working in a private facility is headed for the courts.

A student who suffered a serious head injury during a schools’ rugby match has secured €2.75m damages, plus costs, under a settlement approved by the High Court.

The mother of a young student who underwent surgery for serious head injuries after he collapsed at the end of a school rugby match has told the High Court she was upset when the school later advised her he could not stay there.

A student who was injured after he got a knock to the head during rugby training but played in the final minutes of a schools’ match 17 days later sustained another head injury and ended up brain damaged, the High Court has heard.

Imagine what would happen if a bank robber or serial offender told a judge that they would ‘swing around into compliance’!

A senator has claimed women died after being denied access to lifesaving drugs when a cancer research programme was shut down by St Vincent’s Hospital.

Health chiefs are set to investigate claims by a senator that there was “a cover-up” by management at St Vincent’s Hospital over the fraudulent charging of health insurers for cancer drugs.

The Health Minister James Reilly has announced that the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in central Dublin, will be moved to the site of the Elm Park development beside St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4.

THE board of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group has denied it delayed drug trials for cancer patients because the trials required women to use contraception.