Evelyn O Rourke investigates cancer care for women in Ireland in TG4 documentary
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When Evelyn O’Rourke was on maternity leave with her first child she discovered that she was pregnant for the second time.
Within a week of this wonderful news her world came crashing down around her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Now 10 years on with the CervicalCheck controversy still unresolved, Evelyn investigates what sort of experience women who are diagnosed with cancer have today.
In the feature length authored documentary
Evelyn O’Rourke: Ailse & Ise on May 12 9.30pm on TG4, broadcaster Evelyn meets women, their families, doctors, and service providers to investigate the medical, emotional, psychological, and sociological elements that women with cancer experience and to explore how we can deliver the kind of effective and humane service every Irish woman experiencing cancer deserves.
Book commentary: conflicts in reproductive health in Catholic Ireland it remains to be seen if the Catholic ethos will be set aside so that contraception services, tubal ligations, abortions, and assisted fertility treatment will be provided consistent with secular law and women’s welfare
Robyn Myna from Athlone and David Kiernan from Blackrock protesting outside the Department of Health in Dublin in 2017, in protest of the government’s decision to grant ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity. Photo:Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Sat, 01 May, 2021 - 13:00
Don O Leary
The contribution of religious orders to the provision of hospital services in Ireland extends back to 1834 when the Religious Sisters of Charity founded St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. Generally, the role of religious orders was seen in a positive light by Irish Catholics but over the last two decades public opinion has changed radically.
Deaths in Kilkenny, Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Rest in peace
The late Kieran Brennan
The death has occurred of Kieran Brennan, Dundrum, Dublin and Drumgoole, Castlecomer, Kilkenny. Peacefully at St Vincent s University Hospital, Dublin surrounded by his family. Kieran is sadly missed by his wife Christine, children Eoin, Christina, Ciaran, Enda, Ciara and Siobhán, grandchildren, sisters Ann, Kathleen, Rita and brother Michael, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, brother-in-law, nieces and nephews, extended family and a large circle of friends.
Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, April 29 at 11am in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Castlecomer (for immediate family only) followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery.
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Air ambulance helicopter landing at the Mater Hospital helipad during an aeromedical simulation in October 2019. Photo: Peter Doyle
Hospital consultant crisis could ground Major Trauma Services plan, IHCA warns
‘Government needs to recruit and retain more emergency medicine specialists’
Prof Alan Irvine, IHCA
Plans to expand Major Trauma Services across Irish hospitals won’t get off the ground unless the Government tackles the consultant and recruitment crisis, the country’s leading doctors have warned.
This week it was announced that Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae Hospital has been earmarked as the Major Trauma Centre for the Central Network.
Mater Hospital new Major Trauma Centre
The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, located on Dublin’s north inner city, has been announced as the Major Trauma Centre for the Central Network (April 27).
St Vincent’s University Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital, both on the southside of Dublin, have been designated as the two Trauma Units for the Central Region.
Under the ‘A Trauma System for Ireland’ report, the Trauma Policy for Ireland Steering group recommended creating a “hub and spoke” model of care with two regional trauma networks, each with a major trauma centre and trauma units.
Cork University Hospital has already been identified as the Major Trauma Centre for the South Major Trauma Network. Trauma care for children is to be provided at the new children’s hospital which is to be the paediatric Major Trauma Centre.