The founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation said he is “withdrawing gracefully” from his public campaign opposing the location of the new children’s hospital at the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin.

The Government has been put on notice of possible legal action to stop the development of the new €1bn children’s hospital at the St James’ hospital campus in Dublin.

The Government could be facing court action against the decision to press ahead with plans for the new National Children's Hospital.

Two Fianna Fáil deputies are today putting a motion to the party, opposing plans to build the new National Children's Hospital at St James in Dublin.

One of the country's biggest children's charities has claimed that is being excluded from a Health Committee meeting to discuss the location of the new National Children's Hospital.

Golf star Rory McIlroy has secured close to €1 million for three children’s charities on the back of the Irish Open tournament.

The head of a charity that provides nursing care and support for children with severe neurological development issues has praised golf star Rory McIlroy for donating his Irish Open prize money to the cause.

A number of objectors to the children’s hospital being built on Dublin’s St James’s Hospital campus are “thinking very seriously” about seeking a judicial review of the planning decision, it has emerged.

Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has announced that she is retiring from politics.

Little Logan Whelan Kelly wondered what all the fuss was about when his mum took him to Jack and Jill’s Hares on the March art fundraiser in Dublin.

Lucinda Creighton saw fledgling party fail to return a single seat, writes Political Reporter Elaine Loughlin.

Plans for the new National Children’s Hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin will be “vigorously opposed”, Jack and Jill Foundation founder and chief executive Jonathan Irwin said yesterday.

Renua Ireland has ruled out running finance guru Eddie Hobbs in Kildare South after children’s charity boss Jonathan Irwin announced his decision to opt out of competing there at the next general election.

The first eight candidates to run for Renua Ireland in the upcoming general election have been confirmed.

Renua is dominated by former minister Lucinda Creighton, though she says the party is bigger than just one person.

Meaningless name and lack of policies suggest this new party will be aimless. The launch has raised Creighton’s profile in the run-up to the general election, but this is not the heralding of a new dawn in Irish politics, writes Shaun Connolly

There is no better testament to the Easter Rising than to begin building the new national children’s hospital next year on one of its most famous battle sites, the South Dublin Union, Health Minister Leo Varadkar said yesterday.

One of two patient representatives named on the HSE’s medical card clinical advisory group wants the body to agree and implement key issues to help families long before its three-month interim report deadline.

Restaurateur and Irish MasterChef judge Nick Munier has appealed to festive season diners to serve up a special donation to help terminally ill children.

Charity founder Jonathan Irwin will run in the next election because he thinks the Irish are ready to vote for an Etonian seeking change, says Arlene Harris

The founder of the Jack and Jill Foundation Jonathan Irwin has announced his intention to contest the next general election as an Independent.

A patient group representing children with life-limiting conditions has warned that Ireland is "back to where we were at the very start" of the medical card crisis due to the Government’s expert panel findings.

It is being claimed that a senior consultant at St James' in Dublin has outlined serious concerns about the proposed new National Children's Hospital.

The head of the Jack and Jill Foundation has said he has been sent two anonymous letters which he says proves the site of the new National Children's Hospital is inappropriate.

Nearly €40m of taxpayers' money has been spent on the doomed bid to build the National Children's Hospital at the Mater in Dublin.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar says the Government may have to look at providing specific services to those who normally get discretionary medical cards.

The head of the Jack and Jill Foundation says the new Health Minister was foolish to address plans to overhaul the medical card system, before an expert panel reports on the issue.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is facing mounting pressure to clarify if radical medical card system reforms will still take place, after Health Minister Leo Varadkar appeared to row back on the vital plans.

The Jack and Jill Foundation is calling for the new National Children's Hospital to be moved from its proposed site at St James' Hospital.

Children's charity Jack and Jill is calling on the Government to reconsider St James' Hospital in Dublin city centre as the location for the new National Children's Hospital.

Acknowledging just how cruel the medical card reviews had become, the Taoiseach described to the Dáil how people with motor neurone disease were "asked by the computer" to respond even though they "were unable to speak and move and therefore could not respond."

The Government is being urged to go one step further in its U-turn over medical cards, and refund people for the costs incurred while their cards were revoked.

Patients, disability groups, and organisations looking after terminally ill children all welcomed the return of medical cards to 15,300 people who lost them since the controversial 2011 cull began — but warned the Government they are closely watching their next steps.

Seriously ill children who have already lost their discretionary medical cards will die before the law is changed to help them, a leading charity has claimed.

Former justice minister Alan Shatter fired a parting shot at ex-cabinet colleagues by donating his ministerial severance payment to a charity that has led the campaign against the Government’s medical card cuts.

Nothing became Alan Shatter like the manner of his leaving. Yesterday, the former minister for justice tied up some loose ends following his departure from government two weeks ago.

A charity for children with life-limiting conditions has given its complete backing to a new petition calling for all seriously-ill children to automatically receive medical card help.

The founder and CEO of a well known Irish charity is calling for an urgent audit of charity funding.

Senior voluntary hospital and agency bosses are receiving “at least €3.224m” per year in 36 hidden extra fees on top of their six-figure salaries.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been urged to intervene in the ongoing medical card crisis and ensure terminally ill children automatically receive the vital support.