The National Children’s Hospital will be a first-class facility where parents will no longer be forced to sleep on mattresses under the bed of their sick child, it was claimed today.

HE WAS a champion of patients’ rights, a pioneer of surgery and a leading light in the fight against health cuts.

THE head of the controversial National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, Philip Lynch, has resigned his position.

PROMINENT medical practitioners who specialise in paediatrics have come out against the building of the new national children’s hospital in the middle of Dublin, saying it is not in the best interests of children.

FORMER heart surgeon Maurice Neligan has withdrawn his support for the building of the new national children’s hospital on a site in the centre of Dublin.

FAIR play to Prof John Crown and cardiac surgeon Maurice Neligan for speaking out about the shortcomings of our health service.

AT THE end of every Dáil term, I tot up the topics that have come up during Leaders Questions — the two slots every week where Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore ask Bertie Ahern a question without giving him notice.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney would have resigned or been sacked from her position if she was in Government in any other country, according to one of the most distinguished medical practitioners in Ireland Dr Maurice Neligan.

THE father of murdered nurse Sara Neligan will be among the speakers at a two-day conference on the changes occurring in Irish society.

A 31-year-old nurse whose body was found in apartment in Dublin was stabbed a number of times, a court was told today.