Occupational therapists have criticised changes to an assessment of need for children under disability legislation, just as a High Court judgement will compel the HSE to deliver outstanding assessments within six weeks for two families who challenged the former system.

The Catholic Church is becoming increasingly isolated in its attitude to homosexuality, the former president of Ireland has warned

RTÉ’s Marian Finucane has called for the national roll-out of programme for healthcare professionals providing palliative and cancer care to lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) patients.

Only a fifth of recommendations from a major suicide prevention plan have been properly acted on three years after it was first published, it emerged today.

SOCIAL workers have taken a stand against therapies which claim to “cure” homosexuality on the grounds that they add to the mental distress of gay and lesbian people.