Brian Hurley runs upstairs these days, never walks.

Goals win games — and when you keep scoring them game after game, you inevitably win All-Irelands, as Tipperary’s senior and U20 teams happily found this year.

Austin Gleeson has been chasing after his stunning form of 2016 ever since and, in a bid to finally recapture it, has decided to cancel Christmas.

Gaelic Players’ Association head Paul Flynn reckons the Club Players Association has performed a service of sorts by quitting the GAA’s task force on fixtures reform.

Cancer patients living in the south can now avail of some of the most technologically advanced treatments closer to home thanks to a new €77m cancer care centre in Cork.

The opening of a new Bon Secours Cork Cancer Centre has been described as a "very positive development for Cork and the wider Munster region".

The Bon Secours hospital in Cork has officially opened its new cancer care centre, which was developed in partnership with US medical centre UPMC.

The surgeon who removed a life-threatening brain tumour from Irish teen Aaron McMahon says he can look forward to “life as usual” and may leave hospital by the weekend.

“I’ll see you when I’m done.”

Cutting-edge technology will be used at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork to provide a higher level of precision in attacking and killing cancerous tumours.

Radiographers at Cork University Hospital have agreed to extend their working day after concerns that some cancer patients are not receiving radiotherapy within the recommended timeframe.

Upto 50 clinical and nursing jobs will be created at the Bon Secours Hospital in Cork as part of an ambitious €77m expansion.

Cork’s first private radiotherapy centre is set to open its doors in January 2019 as part of a joint venture between the Bon Secours Health System (BSHS) and a US medical firm.

Earnings at Dublin’s Beacon Hospital increased more than threefold last year to €7.2m, new figures show.

The main Irish arm of US medical firm, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre recorded a loss of €71.9m on its disposal of the Beacon Hospital last year, new accounts show.

Businessman Denis O'Brien is to taking over control of the Beacon private hospital in Dublin.

A NEW technique to combat oesophageal cancer is being pioneered in this country by a top surgeon at Cork’s Mercy University Hospital.

A PRIVATE clinic contracted by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide radiotherapy services to public cancer patients in the south-east is to cease taking new referrals from May 1.

DESPITE the opposition of its own planning inspector and well-founded opposition from local residents, medical consultants, councillors, opposition TDs and Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin, Bord Pleanála has given the Beacon Medical Group (BMG) permission to build their colocated hospital in the grounds of Cork University Hospital.

BUREAUCRATIC red tape is not getting in the way of public patients using modern cancer-fighting machinery in a private hospital in Waterford, the Health Service Executive (HSE) insisted yesterday.

WATERFORD’S new private hospital, the Whitfield Clinic, will open its doors to its first patients next week and is confident it will be able to provide radiotherapy for public patients within weeks.

A world-class private hospital officially opened today will care for public patients regardless of their background or income, it was vowed.

A private radiotherapy clinic has called on the HSE to arrange access for public patients, writes South-East Correspondent Neans McSweeney.

Niamh Nolan