The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

Temple Street Children’s Hospital has apologised to the parents of a 10-month-old baby boy who died from a brain tumour after his diagnosis was delayed.

Comedian Katherine Lynch has agreed to make a €100 donation to Temple Street Hospital after being prosecuted for failing to pay a train fare.

A leading hospital has warned the St James’s-based national children’s hospital plan risks causing significant delays to a linked maternity facility meant to be built at the same time.

A decision on the location of the proposed national children’s hospital will be made in the next number of weeks, according to Health Minister Dr James Reilly.

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

Plans to locate the proposed national children’s hospital at the Mater site in Dublin city centre could be resurrected after management at three hospitals in the area said they were puttingtogether a fresh proposal.

Fewer children are being killed or injured on Irish roads, research reveals, but parents are being urged to put helmets on their children when cycling.

One of the country’s busiest children’s hospitals has been ordered to cut its surgical theatre procedures by one quarter — despite facing €25,000 fines for every month a patient is on a long-term waiting list for these same procedures.

THE board tasked with developing the new national children’s hospital has slashed by almost 50% the amount it is hoping to raise in charitable donations towards the estimated €650 million cost of the project.

The chairman of Temple St Children's Hospital Donal Walsh has come out in support of the new Children's Hospital at the Mater site in Dublin.

Dr Frank Dolphin has been named as the new chairman of the HSE succeeding Liam Downey who has completed the permitted two terms, it was announced today.

Temple Street Children's Hospital A&E has been voted the best acute hospital in the country by patients and their relatives.

Catherine Shanahan