A young mother, who travelled to Italy for pioneering surgery on her deaf son’s hearing, said she will have to sell her house after the HSE pulled the plug on funding for the operation.

The State has spent more than €21m on applications from patients to be treated abroad in the past three years, according to figures released by the HSE.

Taylor Swift has threatened to sue her old guitar teacher.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has paid for at least 49 patients to undergo sex-change operations abroad, at a cost to the taxpayer of around €1.5m.

A young woman with a rare and progressive disease who was refused funding to travel abroad for treatment not available here has launched a public appeal calling on the Government and the HSE to relent.

A young woman with a rare disease, who was refused funding to travel abroad for specialist assessment, has launched an online petition to try and get the HSE to change its mind.

The HSE drew back from a commitment to fund accommodation and travel costs for the family of a young boy requiring limb-lengthening surgery in the US and denied him shoe lifts, a report has found.

Well done and many thanks to Catherine Shanahan for continuing to follow Grainne O’Connor’s story (Irish Examiner, Feb 25) so highlighting the injustice being done to her.

The HSE has finally agreed to fund overseas treatment for a woman with life-threatening epilepsy who could not access the appropriate treatment in Ireland.

A woman with severe epilepsy who has been waiting two years for vital tests has been refused funding for overseas treatment because her application was delayed in the Christmas post.

Catherine Shanahan says HSE red tape is delaying one woman’s vital treatment

Britain's biggest accounting software firm, Sage, has said its pre-tax profit for the six months ended March 31 was ahead of expectations at £87m (€130.4m), showing growth of 17% on the same period the previous year.