Conor Healy got a real blast of nostalgia one day when he was browsing through postcards at a shop in Youghal.

A HSE-run facility for older people which is at the centre of court proceedings “appeared institutional and hospital-like”, with some residents spending large parts of the day in bed and eating meals at their bedside, according to a report by health watchdog Hiqa.

It’s less than a year since No 2 St Joseph’s Place appeared on these pages, laid out back then in old bedsits, and then was guiding €225,000 when we advised it needed getting the builders in. 

Shane Dowling remembered Ger Hoey of St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield in the clamour of yesterday’s All-Ireland club success.

Two youths who caused a security breach at a specialist care unit for troubled teenagers — where a number of violent incidents have previously been recorded — have “resumed their care” at the unit “under close supervision”.

The State’s health watchdog has warned it is considering taking regulatory action against a Cork nursing home which failed to address concerns raised about the safety and suitability of its premises.

Athletics: All the favourites obliged at the GloHealth Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships at Cork IT yesterday.

One of the IRA’s “Disappeared” victims will be laid to rest beside his parents today, 36 years after he was abducted and murdered.

The last recorded movements of the 27-year-old Lithuanian woman whose bloodied body was found on the kitchen floor of her home with her pet dog standing guard over her on June 16, 2013, were shown to a hushed courtroom yesterday.

Gardaí in Cork are examining the scene of a fire in Mallow which killed two men.

A state counsel yesterday criticised a cleric for coming into court to give character evidence on behalf of a homeless campaigner convicted of stealing €26,852 from an 88-year-old care home patient.

Four days it took yours truly to get Justin Daly on the other end of a phone line.

A 68-year-old man abandoned his home and cycled 30 miles through the night to check himself into a nursing home after being terrorised twice by robbers at his remote home in west Clare.

At 10pm on Feb 21, 2012, bachelor Michael McMahon heard banging outside his home in rural Co Clare and could see three torches in the darkness outside.

A hospital has been ordered to clean up its act within weeks after inspectors found dirty sinks, soiled toilets and unclean floors posing a risk to patients.

The prayers of seven clamped motorists were answered by a priest following a Christmas carol ceremony.

It appears that a deal has been done in regard to land at St Joseph’s Road, Mallow — where 180 acres has been bought back by two farmers who sold the land to farmer-turned-developer, John Barry, in the first place.

A PSYCHIATRIC hospital serving a major city is unfit for purpose and should be closed down, experts have warned.

THE GUESTS were late.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that a 27-year-old man on trial for murder confessed to gardaí that he stabbed a father of one, “stuck” his body in a boot, and was intending on burning the car at a halting site, when he noticed gardaí and ran away.

A SENIOR Government minister has urged Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray to “make the appropriate decision” on whether he should resign, after the Murphy Report criticised his handling of abuse allegations.

SOME Christian Brothers who formerly served in St Joseph’s Industrial School, Tralee, are expected to be at the centre of a new Garda probe into sexual and physical abuse at the school.

The funeral of former Waterford TD Billy Kenneally, the father of sitting TD Brendan Kenneally, takes place today.

A WELSH judge has ordered that the name and address of a notorious north Dublin paedophile convicted of sexually abusing a number of orphans be made public.

Gardaí have launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a man's body in the boot of a car in north Dublin last night.

Tommy Barker says this semi-d has the right interior design looks.

Three teenagers killed in a New Year’s Eve car crash were waked in their family homes today as separate funerals were planned for tomorrow.

A south Dublin teenager has been found guilty of the fatal stabbing of another teenager outside his house on Waterloo Road by a jury at the Central Criminal Court.

A witness has told a Central Criminal Court jury that he saw his friend fall to the ground after he had been fatally stabbed after a night out to celebrate leaving school.

FEARS for the wellbeing of an elderly Limerick widow increased last night at an Italian lake resort where she has been missing since last Friday.

Arsonists set a Catholic church on fire in the North today.

A missionary priest and the Irish League of Credit Unions were among those presented with the 2007 Lord Mayor’s Awards in the capital tonight.

“NOT only did I lose my brother; I lost my best friend, my idol.”

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) Mid-West has rejected a claim by SIPTU that a rehabilitation unit at St Joseph’s Psychiatric Hospital is being shut down without any plans for an alternative facility.

A 26-year-old Dublin man is in a critical condition in hospital following a stabbing on the south side of the city at the weekend.

A LIMERICK man who suffers from mental illness has condemned the refusal of the Health Service Executive (HSE) Mid-West to give him access to the medical records of his late mother, who also suffered from mental illness and was a patient in St Joseph’s psychiatric hospital.

A RELIGIOUS brother was described as a “menace” and a “danger” in the internal reports of a Cork industrial school, but no documents survive to reveal the nature of his behaviour or if steps were taken to address it.

A BOOK about two male penguins that raised a baby penguin has been moved from the children’s section to the non-fiction section of two public library branches after parents complained about homosexual undertones.

A book about two male penguins that raised a baby penguin has been moved from the children’s section to the non-fiction section of two public library branches after parents complained about homosexual undertones.

Four people who attended an industrial school in Galway have complained of suffering sexual abuse, it emerged tonight.

An order of nuns who ran an industrial school for girls today apologised for failing to provide for their needs.

The jury in the trial of a Lithuanian man who denies the murder of a fellow Lithuanian at a Dublin flat has been adjourned following a defence application at the Central Criminal Court.