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By Suzanne Pender IT’S 50 years since Seamus Kearney tripped while out for a walk in Germany, where he was working at the time. He went over on his ankle and he…

An Irish pensioner who has been waiting fifty years for surgery has undergone a rare ankle replacement operation in Spain, paid for by the HSE.

Kildare town resident Bernadette Carroll is in tears. But they are tears of joy, of relief, of happiness – tears after finally being heard and finally get...

The maintenance manager at Wexford General Hospital has spoken of his decision to travel to Spain for a vital hip replacement operation, rather than being left to wait it out at home.

Former Glasgow Celtic youth player Vincent Gallacher (61) said he feels “alive again” after he flew out to the Spanish city of Dènia for his ...

The Ombudsman Ger Deering says the HSE behaved in an ‘unreasonable and inflexible’ manner when dealing with patients who had sought healthcare abroad and were entitled to reimbursement

ONE day, roughly two years ago, Ciara Shanahan from Croagh was enjoying a walk in the nearby Curraghchase forest when she suddenly felt extreme pain in her knee...

The Ombudsman said patients felt the schemes to be ‘unforgiving and lacking in empathy when it came to administrative errors’.

Lynn McAuley exudes health and happiness. “I went on my first sun holiday in probably eight years last year, and I wore the bikini and I felt good. “I have noticed an increase in my overall happiness, my social interactions. I had forgotten I was young and I wasn’t living for my age. I am finding me again. Everything is so much better.”

Lynn McAuley exudes health and happiness. “I went on my first sun holiday in probably eight years last year, and I wore the bikini and I felt good. “I have noticed an increase in my overall happiness, my social interactions. I had forgotten I was young and I wasn’t living for my age. I am finding me again. Everything is so much better.”