Granny Murphy was supposed to be my guest at the Cork Person of the Year awards only two weeks ago. She had her hair done especially, the good outfit picked out.

A higher mortality rate has been recorded at Cork University Hospital (CUH) for ischaemic stroke than anywhere else in the country.

In 1989, then-finance minister and would-be taoiseach Albert Reynolds was eviscerated for dismissing Fianna Fáil’s coalition with the Progressive Democrats as a “temporary little arrangement”, writres Daniel McConell.

An ‘eyesore’ section of a ghost estate is constantly hampering community efforts to better the area.

Clare Federation is always up for fun ways to promote Irish, so it’s no surprise that their summer meeting featured a free game of Bingo with numbers called ‘trí Ghaeilge’.

Meet the May Day miracle foal who has defied the odds to become one of Ireland’s smallest horses.

Margaret Murphy from Tallow, Co Waterford introduces us to her miniature Falabella horses Molly and Molly's wonderfully cute new-born colt, Bealtaine. 

Events to mark the centenary of the only Cork man killed during the Easter Rising will also remember his fiancée after fate brought descendants of both into contact this week.

1916 letter provides a link to only Cork man killed in the Rising, writes Niall Murray

History was made in Cork South West with the election of the constituency’s first female TD, with Margaret Murphy O’Mahony’s win also matching the national pattern of a resurgent Fianna Fáil vote.

Ireland emerges reasonably well from an international comparison of stillbirth rates across 49 high income countries, ranking 17th, seven places ahead of the UK.

The HSE has been accused of ignoring “more than a decade” of serious patient safety concerns flagged by staff, patients, and official reports, culminating in the deaths of eight newborn babies in “extremely traumatising” circumstances.

At times like this, when a media storm threatens to engulf a story, it is vital to seek out expert opinion to get a sober, reasoned analysis of the true extent of the problem.

A six-person team has been appointed to investigate services at a Midlands hospital where a number of babies died in controversial circumstances over a six-year period.

Times were horrific for pregnant unmarried women just 40 years ago. Helen O’Callaghan hears of the group who changed all that and more.

It’s beach weather, for sure, but there’s no shortage of organised festivities and events this weekend.

It’s hard to get enthused about proposed health reform at a time when the Government is busy picking apart the very structure that, less than a decade ago, was supposed to “change forever the landscape of the Irish Health Service”, according to then minister Micheál Martin.

A TV licence inspector has described an incident where he was assaulted on duty as the most frightening situation of his 13-year career.

Two women have died in separate road accidents in Cork and Dublin.

A patient advocate whose son died because of a series of misdiagnoses, lost opportunities, and inappropriate care has welcomed new national healthcare standards unveiled yesterday.

A leading US lawyer is coming to Ireland to help our medical and legal systems examine faster and cheaper ways of resolving medical negligence cases, the cost of which have almost doubled since 2009 to €81m last year.

FIRST we heard the country music tones of Mike Denver over the loudspeakers.

AN €89.9 million summary judgment order entered against a Laois businessman in favour of Anglo Irish Bank is believed to be the largest judgment against an individual by the Commercial Court.

NEARLY €60 million in compensation for hospital-related claims has been paid out so far this year, an increase of 25% on the cost of claims settled last year.

A psychiatric expert has told the Central Criminal Court that a man who assaulted his wife poses an “extremely low risk” of re-offending, if he is not jailed.

A 48-year-old Waterford Man has pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to assaulting a woman in his home, causing her harm.

THE country’s regulatory body for doctors has a lay majority for the first time — 13 lay members and 12 medical practitioners.

PAUL MURPHY of Banteer was the champion handler in the annual calf show held recently by the Young Members Association of the Irish Holstein Friesian Association in Cork.

A MANDATORY licensing system for public and private healthcare services is to be drawn up by the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance, Health Minister, Mary Harney, revealed yesterday.

A DUBLIN company has won a key element of an €8 million development to provide tidal powered electricity to a Canadian power company.

THE 1972 Olympics are featured in a controversial Steven Spielberg movie called Munich later this month - but pentathlon athlete Margaret Murphy was there at the real games.

IT is a cautionary tale, the story of 21-year-old Kevin Murphy’s tragic death, precipitated by a breakdown in communication among healthcare staff.

BIG companies in the Mid-West have agreed to give a helping hand to smaller ones in their area by sharing their expertise on how best to tackle waste management.

A 21-year-old man whose heavily-intoxicated and cocaine-fuelled dangerous driving caused the death of three young men has been jailed for eight years by Judge Miriam Reynolds at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE mother of the young Cork man who died following a series of medical errors says cases such as that which focused on her son’s tragic death should be heard in forums other than the courts.