Person: Liam McNamara

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MV Alta in Cork just the latest ghost ship to arrive on Irish shores

Another seemingly abandoned ghost ship washed up without a crew close to Ballycotton, almost exactly 125 years to the day that the MV Alta was discovered last weekend after 18-months adrift at sea.

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Tag from fishing boat that survived 'Perfect Storm' off US washes up on Clare beach

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Quirke holding tough as favourites fall away

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Shortage of nurses forces psychiatric day care centre to close

golf

Hayes off to a good start in Roscommon

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Idle mental health unit for children

Eight of the best scoop McManus scholarships

THE JP McManus Scholarship Awards went international last night with two of the eight recipients having been born in Poland and Togo.

Thu, 11 Sep, 2008

Ginn leads Irish Seniors Open

Stewart Ginn leads by two at the AIB Irish Seniors Open at Palmerstown House heading into the final day.

Sat, 02 Jun, 2007

Specialist teams could reduce rate of suicides

SPECIALIST teams of medical experts must be drafted in to deal with the 10,000 people admitted to hospitals after attempting suicide each year, the Psychiatric Nurses’ Association (PNA), urged yesterday.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2005

Specialist teams could reduce rate of suicides

Sat, 16 Apr, 2005

Plea for special teams to handle suicide bid patients

Specialist teams of medical experts must be drafted in to deal with the 10,000 people admitted to hospitals after attempting suicide each year, it was urged today.

Fri, 15 Apr, 2005

Mental hospital’s proximity to prison is ‘extraordinary’

PSYCHIATRIC nurses have described as “extraordinary” the decision to site a new central mental hospital on the same campus as a planned super prison.

Sat, 29 Jan, 2005

Good luck all the way as Mylo shoots albatross

EVEN in the rarefied atmosphere of professional golf, the albatross, three under par, is unusual.

Tue, 17 Aug, 2004

Paracetamol rules ‘useless’ in preventing suicides

THE regulations on the sale of paracetamol tablets are “practically useless” in preventing suicide attempts, psychiatric nurses have warned.

Thu, 22 Apr, 2004

Hospital cannot hire psychiatric nurses due to cuts, says union

A PSYCHIATRIC hospital with the highest rate of staff assaults in the country cannot take on extra nurses because of cutbacks, unions have claimed.

Fri, 11 Jul, 2003

Psychiatric patients are ‘living in Dickensian conditions’

NURSES’ representatives at a Limerick psychiatric hospital claim patients are living in Dickensian accommodation while health board staff occupy plush offices.

Fri, 23 May, 2003