Descendants of workouse and County Home residents buried in unmarked graves in a west Cork cemetery took part in a solemn procession to mark the return of a sacred symbol yesterday.

A famine cross which vanished from Clonakilty about 30 years ago is to return to its former home on Good Friday.

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It’s been a bruising few years for the agency and it’s not over yet, writes Business Correspondent John Walsh.

THE Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22, 1949, was an important day for the then Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles Mc Quaid. On that day Mount Carmel Hospital opened in Dublin run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.

Helplines to deal with inquiries from anxious Mount Carmel patients have been flooded with around 500 queries.

SIPTU is calling on the Government to ensure that all options are explored to save jobs at Mount Carmel hospital in Dublin.

Nama’s decision to stop financially propping up Mount Carmel Hospital, and the jobs of more than 300 people, came after it suffered more than three years of losses since it acquired the hospital’s loans in 2010.

A private maternity hospital and two consultant obstetricians yesterday apologised in the High Court to the parents of a baby boy who died soon after his birth six years ago.

A man suing the Sunday Times for defamation over an opinion piece about him filming the birth of his baby daughter accepts that it may have been an emergency delivery.

A consultant obstetrician who failed to send a patient with a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy for treatment has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

The bombing of the government building in Oslo has evoked memories of Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Oklahoma City federal building 16 years ago.

A PARISIAN chef used the video camera on his phone to peek under women’s skirts as they browsed in a clothes shop.

In Safe Hands

BED closures at a West Cork community hospital are necessary to meet fire safety standards, otherwise the hospital would fail a mandatory registration process, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has claimed.

THE husband of a woman who died following an elective hysterectomy at a private hospital said after an inquest at which a verdict of medical misadventure was recorded that they had “got justice” for his wife.

CONCERN is mounting that the HSE is planning to close even more nursing home beds in a west Cork hospital.

ELDERLY residents at Clonakilty Community Hospital have been told to pack up their belongings and move from their long-stay rooms as the HSE plans to close eight beds.

THIS is a bit of a bargain — a detached house on a large site, in Montenotte, for €350,000. Not bad.

SILVERTON may well turn to gold for some fortunate — and bank-funded — buyer, able to rise to the lure of a four-bed detached in the highly rated Bishopstown Avenue.

DO you know what really annoys the arse off me?

DESPITE having been built in 1850, this house had been passed on in love and affection down the years and was only put on the market for the first time less than 10 years ago.

WE are told that a national day of mourning is too expensive.

The PEACE group is seeking songs for its 10th song contest for peace. The closing date is December 3.

ON FRIDAY, March 26, the Irish Examiner Money and Jobs section had a piece on human resource management, suggesting that “companies unable to afford a human resource manager may be failing in their duty to follow proper procedures”.

PEACE (Prayer Enterprise and Christian Effort) is seeking poems of peace from Irish Examiner readers.

SONGWRITERS and composers are reminded that Friday, December 5, is the closing date for entries to the ninth International Song Contest for Peace.

Padraig Harrington is celebrating the arrival of his first child – although he missed the birth as he was on the other side of the Atlantic.

I WRITE in reply to the article by SHB Chief Executive Sean Hurley in the Irish Examiner, April 28.

DUSTIN certainly knows a thing or two about impressing women.