Letters to the Editor: Recognition due to our health service and its workers

It is imperative that we invest in and cherish health staff and facilities, writes one reader, while another says Irish people should ensure that decisive action against Israeli apartheid is a central election issue

We need to remind ourselves of the valuable work of health workers, says Liam Maddock.

Recently, I was both unfortunate and fortunate to be admitted to a hospice for treatment.

Unfortunate in the sense that, as a youngish, fit man in my late 40s, admission to a hospice was not on my life plan, but such are the cards life sometimes deals us. Having been diagnosed with cancer almost five years ago, another admission comes with the territory.