HCCI, the representative body for home care providers, met with Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD, Minister of State for Older People, Jim Daly TD and HSE officials this week and agreed to a four point ‘Home Care Plan’. Fifty-eight of Home and Community Care Ireland’s (HCCI) 20,000 home care […]
A national phone support service to help newly discharged stroke survivors make the transition back home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has been launched by the Irish Heart Foundation in conjunction with the HSE’s National Stroke Programme. The check-in service is a ground-breaking response to significant reductions in […]
Ireland South MEP, Billy Kelleher has said that yesterday’s vote by the European Parliament’s AGRI Committee to extend the current CAP rules by two years, and to demand a stronger budget should be taken up by the Minister for Agriculture and championed at EU Council level. The Fianna Fáil MEP […]
RTE’s award-winning heritage series Building Ireland, which chronicles the engineering, geography and architecture behind some of Ireland’s most iconic building projects returns, returns to screens on April 16, with an episode on the construction of Dublin Airport’s terminal building. West Cork features in episode 3, which examines the Beara Peninsula’s […]
RTÉ is calling on the Irish public to come together to shine a light this Saturday, April 11 at 9pm to create a moment of solidarity in our battle against the Covid 19 pandemic. President Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina are set to shine their light from the […]
With strict restrictions now in place in maternity hospitals nationwide, new mothers are becoming increasing worried about the prospect of giving birth without the birth plan and the support team they would have wanted. “The situation is changing rapidly and mothers are contacting me in a frenzy, worried they will […]