Overcrowding in mental health services in Waterford is putting staff and patients under ‘intolerable pressure’, the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has warned.

The scale of an event, the sweep of a narrative can make it difficult to comprehend and, therefore, difficult to resolve.

An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Irish College of General Practitioners will take place today over abortion services.

Almost 2,700 children are now waiting to be seen by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, with a 10% increase in just one month in the number of young people waiting for more than a year.

I have been examining bus fares over recent weeks and discovered there are major anomalies in the pricing structure of Bus Éireann services, whereby west Cork bus users are charged excessive rates in comparison to almost anywhere else in the country.

Unions have accused both the board of CIE and management at Iarnrod Éireann of “aping Oliver Twist” in their “embarrassing” approach to seeking funding from government for Ireland’s rail network.

Resolute parents who were once told to lock their baby boy in a room and forget about him after he was diagnosed with autism, are now determined to establish specific services for their adult son.

Mental health services need an extra 2,000 staff to function properly.

The Department of Education has insisted that second-level schools are obliged to ensure extra teaching hours allocated for guidance are used for that purpose.

IN this society, where power is bought by politicians promising the unaffordable, principle plays second fiddle to the rolling auction needed to secure and retain power. 

Residents of a Cork suburb feel they live in a “forgotten town” when it comes to services for young people because it is perceived as a “well-off” area.

Hiqa has said allegations of child abuse made to the Child and Family Agency in the Midlands are not always reported to Gardaí.

The Former Interim CEO of Console has said that it is important that the crucial services run by the charity continue.

Pieta House is to take over the services provided by Console after reaching an agreement with the HSE.

With three children on the autistic spectrum, Mary and Michael Dunne would rather not have to spend so much time and energy battling officialdom, writes Noel Baker

What do Irish Water, the Health Service Executive, and Nama all have in common? They were all designed by politicians and public servants.

Excess regulation is hampering credit unions’ ability to provide basic services such as debit cards to their members despite an EU directive aimed at ensuring those services are available to citizens in every country.

The first ever cancer information service is becoming available in a pharmacy chain.

One in five children or teens admitted to a mental health facility are still being placed in "inappropriate" adult wards — despite the policy being outlawed since 2011.

A senator has railed against “totally unjust” rules which mean self-employed women are unlikely to get maternity benefit if their baby is born after the 16th week of the year.

People with severe brain conditions are five times less likely to be able to access help now than they were three years ago as a result of the Government’s ongoing austerity policies.

Children and adults with serious brain conditions are waiting years for treatment, seeing vital state supports axed, and are increasingly seeking help privately because they have lost faith in the public system.