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Fire-sale of vacant HSE sites to fund mental health reform

Monday March 22 2010

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is planning a fire-sale of most of its 57 vacant properties to fund badly needed improvements in mental health care.

The properties and why they are to be sold

Monday March 22 2010

  • Planned asylum seekers' centre in Myshall, Co Carlow

Cancer tsar Keane in talks for top HSE job

Monday March 22 2010

Former national cancer tsar Professor Tom Keane is believed to be discussing terms and conditions for the position of Health Service Executive chief. Dublin-born Prof Keane is understood to be the preferred candidate to take over when Professor Brendan Drumm finishes his five-year contract in August.

Stinging rebuke of public sector

Monday March 22 2010

Watching a trapped bumblebee bounce off a window in a vain attempt to achieve freedom should inspire the enduring symbol of Irish public-sector reform.

Back in the nest: an agonising tale that's completely lacking in ecstasy

Sunday March 21 2010

'So, is it your place or my parents'?" This is the question many penniless young men and women are being forced to ask at the end of a night as a result of having once flown the coop but now come home to roost. There are more young people than ever living under their parents' roofs. But times are tough, and when needs must, there seems to only be one answer and that is to pack up and head back to the bedroom of your 12-year-old self.

Regional hospitals quicker for scans

Sunday March 21 2010

Patients can have their diagnostic scans in a matter of hours at some regional hospitals instead of joining the long wait for the same scan in the country's major hospitals.

Top HSE director facing probe over 'conflict of interest'

Saturday March 20 2010

An investigation is under way into a potential conflict of interest involving a senior director in the Health Service Executive.

The time has come, but is Sean Brady the man of the hour?

Saturday March 20 2010

At the Irish Bishops' press conference, which was broadcast on Vatican Radio in February, after the 24 bishops had finished their talks with the Pope and his top Vatican officials, I specifically asked Cardinal Brady -- flanked by three other bishops -- if the bishops used their five minutes with the Pope to assure him that they and their dioceses had clean bills of health.