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File Photo The Health Service Executive has said it is working to establish how many patients may need to have their medical tes

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Letters to the Editor: Medical card plea from exhausted mum/carer

I’m writing because I received a letter from the HSE on Saturday, December 19. It is a letter looking to review my medical card. I’m a lone parent of two children, a full-time carer to one of them who is home from school since early March last year.

<p> A protester outside Blanchardstown Garda station after George Nkencho was fatally shot by gardai at Manorfields Drive in Clonee, West Dublin. Social media was alive with the false claim Nkencho had 32 convictions for violent crime. Picture: Stephen Collins / Collins Photos Dublin.</p>

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Irish Examiner view: Fury at satire focussed on wrong target

<p>The Christmas lights on Oliver Plunkett Street set against the beautiful late afternoon sky over Cork on New Year's Eve, 2020. The government made a disastrous decision to open things up for a feelgood Christmas splurge, according to reader Jim Cosgrove. Picture Denis Minihane.</p>

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Letters to the Editor: Nphet true to its remit — take note Paul Hosford

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Scene and Heard: This week's entertainment news

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Scene & heard: Here's your entertainment news round-up

Bubble bursts on sporting untouchables

Even the words of George Hook’s apology were offensive to women

Radio personalities have a responsibility when it comes to tackling rape culture — but so do the show sponsors, says Suzanne Harrington

Wed, 13 Sep, 2017

Water issues keep coming to the surface

Sadly, warnings to politicians on the huge costs of years of under-investment have not been heeded and Irish Water needs to get its ducks in a row financially, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Mon, 31 Jul, 2017

Fire brigade has best reply to Waterford Whispers article about U2 concert

Dublin Fire Brigade has responded to a satirical piece about an "ageing" crowd at Saturday's U2 concert.

Mon, 24 Jul, 2017

The conflation of anorexia with vanity is misguided. Believe me, there is no vanity attached to starving yourself

Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, a co-presenter of Cork’s 96FM programme The Opinion Line, recently interviewed a woman named Sharon whose daughter has been hospitalised with severe anorexia. 

Sat, 16 Apr, 2016