The launch of the implementation strategy for the cross-party Sláintecare plan, telling us all that's going to be done to fix our health service over the coming decade, has deflected attention away from more immediate concerns rai

Family and friends never suspected the torment that former footballer Sean O'Regan was suffering while battling depression. But last year, he took time out to tackle his mental health problems. Now he's a Rose of Tralee escort

When should a politician resign? Or, to be more precise, when should the Taoiseach, Leo Vardadkar, and his current Health Minister, Simon Harris, resign?

Eamon Jackson flew 1,000 miles to get ground-breaking therapy after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer – one of 3,500 men diagnosed with the same disease every year in Ireland. ‘I've never looked back,' he says.

Is it possible that the suffering of patients is not registering with this government and that of all the doctors and nurses who are at the end of their tether, frustrated and exhausted, day-in and day-out?

Castletowmbere fisherman Daniel Healy is not only celebrating the launch of his new trawler, but also the 11th anniversary of his kidney transplant.

The annual general meeting of West Cork IFA took place recently at the Parkway Hotel in Dunmanway, presided over by the West Cork chairman, Corney Buckley. 

SIR – I am encouraged to see the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution sought clarity on the mental health effects of abortion from expert witnesses as part of their deliberations. 

A new cultured milk drink made by Clóna Dairies in Clonakilty is whipping up a storm in supermarkets.