What Dirt Have the Nuns Got on Bertie Ahern?

Would you locate a national children's hospital in a land-locked city-centre site, with no parking for parents and nowhere for them to stay overnight? Would you justify it by saying [...]

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Irish Medical Consultants

There's an almighty row going on at the moment about the contracts being offered to new hospital consultants. An incredible uproar. And the reason? Well, the government is going to [...]

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Tribunal Lawyers' Fees (and Hospital Consultants)

So the lawyers aren't going to suffer a crippling reduction in fees after all. What a relief. It looked for a while as if they were going to be forced [...]

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New Cork maternity hospital

Irish readers will know about the dispute in Cork about opening the new maternity hospital. The nurses' organisation says the proposed staff levels are too low for safety and they [...]

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Oh, the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone.

You might have seen this Bock rant a little while back concerning the deal made between our government and the RC religious orders whereby we, the taxpayers pay all but [...]

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