A motion of no confidence in HSE director general Tony O’Brien will be brought next week after a Sinn Féin attempt was blocked yesterday.

Minister for Health Simon Harris twice declined to express confidence in the director general of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Tony O’Brien.

The husband of a woman who was twice given incorrect smear test results and subsequently died of cervical cancer has called for HSE boss Tony O’Brien to be sacked or resign — and has not ruled out suing the State for what happened.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien is set to quit his post four weeks earlier than planned amid calls from victims of the cervical cancer tests scandal, Opposition politicians, and at least one Government TD, for him to resign or be fired immediately.

HSE Director General Tony O'Brien will leave his role in July, four weeks earlier than expected.

Health Minister Simon Harris has described the HSE’s response to the cervical cancer tests scandal as “disgusting” amid growing calls for HSE director general Tony O’Brien to be sacked within days.

The chair of a US firm which has hired outgoing HSE boss Tony O’Brien held a significant political fundraiser for Leo Varadkar.

Calls have been made for the resignation of HSE director general Tony O’Brien in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal or for the Taoiseach to remove him.

The HSE as an organisation does not take a position on abortion, says director general Tony O’Brien.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien has described the Kerry University Hospital scans controversy as “a serious issue”.

Healthcare services were as prepared as they could be for a flu outbreak, HSE director general, Tony O’Brien, has said.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien has denied that the caregiver of ‘Grace’ was unfairly or disproportionately treated, despite underfunding her care to the tune of €600,000.

HSE boss Tony O’Brien has launched a scathing attack on campaigners against the HPV vaccine, accusing them of “emotional terrorism”.

Chairman of the Cork City Sports International Athletics Committee, Tony O’Connell, has been named the July ‘Cork Person of the Month’ for his work with Cork City Sports (CCS) over the decades.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien has been accused of treating foster care abuse victim ‘Grace’, and the general public, with “contempt”, for failing to release a damning report into €600,000 of cutbacks imposed on those who uncovered the sexual abuse scandal.

Providence Resources boss Tony O’Reilly Jr has said landing a development partner for the company’s headline asset — the Barryroe oil and gas field off the Cork coast — remains the top priority despite a potential deal collapsing in the last few months.

Tony O’Reilly Jr’s Providence Resources has named Tullow Oil’s exploration director Angus McCoss to its board in a non-executive capacity.

Plans to force HSE director general Tony O’Brien to address concerns that he and others misled a Dáil committee over the Grace scandal last year could be blocked because the inquiry into the case is now in place.

WERE he alive, the extremely influential civil servant TK Whitaker, who died aged 100 just last week, would certainly have an opinion on the weekend assertion by HSE chief Tony O’Brien that we will need, over the next decade, to spend an extra €9bn on our health services to end hospital over-crowding.

In the business world Tony O’Reilly was a big game hunter and in the world of antiques, it seems he liked to bag the real thing too.

Providence Resources — the Tony O’Reilly Jr-led exploration company — has named former Tullow Oil senior executive Pat Plunkett as its chairman.

HSE chief Tony O’Brien has insisted his organisation is “not to blame” for failing to uncover the Console scandal sooner, despite a powerful Dáil group accusing officials of not acting on a series of “alerts” about the charity over the past decade.

Providence Resources chief Tony O’Reilly Jr has said he remains “hopeful” the company can land a long-awaited development partner for its flagship Barryroe field, in the Celtic Sea, in the next six months.

Providence Resources — the Tony O’Reilly Jr-led exploration firm — has announced plans to raise nearly $74m (€66m) in fresh funds via what is, essentially, a company saving share sale.

We have little control over the fact that we are going to die, buts we can control how we live, writes Tony O’Brien

A costly court ruling yesterday put the spotlight on the terms of the debt deal that Providence Resources struck with Melody Finance late last year, as the Barryroe oil and gas explorer led by Tony O’Reilly Jnr unexpectedly lost a multi-million euro legal dispute with an international drilling company over delays in the Celtic Sea.

Former press baron Tony O’Reilly is understood to have sold some of his art collection, with a number of works having gone under the hammer at auction last week.

A number of healthcare decisions made by previous governments were incoherent, contradictory, and incompatible with a strong outcome, said HSE director general Tony O’Brien.

The HSE whistleblower who uncovered the foster care abuse scandal has held a “lengthy, constructive, and positive” meeting with HSE director general Tony O’Brien in a bid to ensure the issue is finally addressed.

THE Health Service Executive director general Tony O’Brien yesterday asked a question that has been begging for an answer for years. Mr O’Brien wondered why the State contests long-running medical negligence cases that delay compensation — especially as it loses virtually all of them.

HSE chief Tony O’Brien has warned that there is a “finite” amount of money for new drugs next year.

OVER the weekend, HSE chief Tony O’Brien warned that there is no clear national vision for our health service and that the HSE has been starved of the funding needed to deliver reform.

Former billionaire Tony O’Reilly was at the centre of an insolvency case in the Bahamas last night, trying to get protection from his creditors.

HSE chief Tony O’Brien, who has just taken over the emergency department taskforce, says he hopes to have 440 additional acute hospital beds open over the winter to ease overcrowding.

A bank seeking to recover debts from Tony O’Reilly has no evidential basis for seeking a court order that the businessman make further disclosure on his assets, the Court of Appeal has heard.

Providence Resources’ chief executive, Tony O’Reilly Jnr yesterday stressed that the company is progressing towards a long-awaited farm-out agreement on its much-heralded Barryroe field off the Cork coast, with signs of “new momentum” evident.

“Shelbourne are most welcome” declared Bohemian’s Life vice-president Tony O’Connell at yesterday’s announcement that Dublin City Council are to purchase Dalymount Park.

 wants to “humiliate and embarrass” him by requiring he swear a further statement as to his assets and liabilities, the Commercial Court has heard.

With faith in the health service at “dangerously low” levels, the HSE director general, Tony O’Brien, must go, said Renua Ireland leader Lucinda Creighton.