2013 intermediate champions De La Salle have reached the Waterford SFC quarter-finals after a tense 2-8 to 1-10 win over Ballinameela in Fraher Field last night.

Boys aged 16-20 are four times more likely to take their own lives than older people, a major study on suicide in Ireland has found.

IF he was so minded, Lance Armstrong could have looked to these shores for the model confession.

One of Ireland’s dedicated 24-hour suicide prevention helplines has received an almost 10% spike in calls from people worried that a family member is at risk of suicide.

A leading suicide prevention campaigner has claimed politicians are more likely to “wring their hands” about the tragedies than make money available to save the lives of other people at risk.

Males aged between 16 and 20 are at heightened risk of suicide, according to new research.

The founder of a website implicated in the suicides of two young Irish girls has insisted he is in no way responsible for what happened.

A “handful” of people are responsible for implementing the national suicide prevention strategy, according to the former deputy head of the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

The key post of director at the National Office for Suicide Prevention remains unfilled as figures show male suicide has rocketed by almost 140% in the past 30 years.

Noel Smyth’s British-based property group plunged into the red last year after writing down the value of investment properties by £38.9m (€47.5m).

A publican has offered 80 acres of cut-price land a short drive from the Mater, close to key national roads and with an already working water and sewage system as a potential site for a new children’s hospital.

In relation to a site for the new children’s hospital, Health Minister James Reilly said “everything is on the table”. Here are the current options facing the group tasked with identifying a location.

Desperate attempts were being made last night by the Government to salvage the National Children’s Hospital, after plans for the long-awaited facility descended into a shambles.

IT WAS the word all sides in the divisive children’s hospital location row were dreading — review. An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse planning permission is to be studied by a review body to be set up under the chairmanship of former HSE chairman Frank Dolphin.

The National Children’s Hospital is possibly the most important project to be developed in Ireland for the next 50 years and we have a responsibility to our children and future generations to get it right.

YOUNG men are much more likely to admit to suicidal thoughts while out drinking with friends — but the remarks are often dismissed as “drunk talk” the following morning.

SOLICITOR and businessman Noel Smyth is being sued for €9.6 million at the Commercial Court over his guarantees of loans made to two companies.

AN increasing number of 16- to18-year-olds are committing suicide, according to research carried out by a leading charity.

THE founding member of a coalition of suicide charities, the Action on Suicide Alliance, has pulled out of the organisation claiming it now lacks independence and cannot criticise its state funders.

BUILDING a national children’s hospital at a site other than the Mater could cut development costs by up to €86 million, a new report has found.

I ALWAYS thought I’d like to be a pilot — the uniform, the glamour, the air hostesses.

DUBLIN-based law firm William Fry has settled its legal action against developer Liam Carroll over his failure to pay €3.3 million of a €4.8m legal costs bill.

THE former head of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has backed the new Government’s plans to re-examine whether the facility should be built at the Mater site.

THE possibility of relocating the proposed new children’s hospital from Dublin city centre to a site off the M50 has been discussed by incoming Taoiseach Enda Kenny with those driving the development.

AMID all the politicking surrounding the proposed new National Children’s Hospital may be we’ve lost sight of the endgame: that there are parents around the country for whom quality of care is the only relevant concern.

A BITTER row has broken out between Health Minister Mary Harney and former chief of the National Paediatric Hospital Philip Lynch over the reasons for his resignation.

THE resignation of Philip Lynch as chairman of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board holed the project below the waterline.

THE property developer who has offered to build Ireland’s children’s hospital on a non-profit basis has called for a reassessment of the decision to build the much-needed facility at the controversial Mater site in Dublin.

AN Irish Suicide Prevention Authority needs to be established to stem the flow of suicides which could now stand at two every day.

A LEADING suicide prevention campaigner has claimed Government is effectively treating the tragedies as “second-class deaths” by failing to provide adequate funding to combat the crisis.

IRELAND’S first 24-hour national suicide helpline manned by specialist counsellors and psychotherapists has received more than 18,000 calls in just six months.

ALLIED Irish Banks have been outed as one of more than 400 companies who still own executive seats at the home of Manchester United, Old Trafford.

Developers and investors today vowed to create about 6,000 jobs in a massive regeneration of The Square at Tallaght.

AN immediate audit of all suicide prevention services is needed to uncover the “true failure” of Government to adequately tackle the issue, a leading charity has claimed.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair will be honoured at a gala dinner tonight attended by outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and rockstar Bono.

THE last time someone was publicly feted on Raglan Road, poor Patrick Kavanagh was smitten and a future US president was in nappies.

DEVELOPER Tom Gilmartin — who alleges falling foul of political corruption when he tried to set up a west Dublin project in the early 1990s — was an honourable and truthful man, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern received more than £100,000 in connection with planning projects from Cork-based developer Owen O’Callaghan in the early 1990s, rival businessman Tom Gilmartin alleged at the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

BRITISH-BASED businessman Tom Gilmartin faces tough questioning at the Mahon Tribunal today over his allegations that senior politicians received corrupt payments relating to land rezoning.

SOLICITOR and multi-millionaire businessman, Noel Smyth, has repeated his proposals to fund the construction of the proposed new national children’s hospital, regardless of its location.

THE hospital which controversially withdrew from plans for a new children’s hospital is prepared to re-enter talks if health authorities agree to consider a fresh proposal from a private developer on a new site.

BUSINESSMEN who offered to pay for a new children’s hospital on the outskirts of Dublin have been contacted about supporting a rival plan.

FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen yesterday defended his backing for a commercial enterprise near Dublin Airport headed by a businessman from a Fianna Fáil family.