Reimagining the role of Irish women in the 1916 Rising opened several doors for Henrietta McKervey and helped her to develop her writing which has won her numerous prizes, writes Sue Leonard.            

Seven out of every 10 Irish nurses are so overstretched they do not have time to comfort seriously ill patients or their families, while one third say patient checks are regularly left undone.

BANK OF IRELAND (BoI) has denied the reason it halted the loan application of a new nursing home in Co Kerry is because funding for the State’s Fair Deal nursing home support scheme has run out.

LOCALS in the harbour town of Rosslare awoke yesterday to the sight of a new “hole in the wall” at the Bank of Ireland after thieves rammed the building with a JCB and stole the ATM machine containing €140,000.

BANK OF IRELAND could face a day of branch closures and ATM failures after its computer staff served strike notice last night.