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Investment in end-of-life care has made Ireland a world leader in advancing palliative and hospice care but regional inequities persist, according to an evaluation by Professor Mary McCarron and colleagues at Trinity College Dublin. The evaluation examined The Atlantic Philanthropies’ End of Life programme –…

Towards 2016 Ten-Year Framework Social Partnership Agreement 2006 - 2015 PRESS RELEASE The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the provision in the new Social Partnership agreement to prioritise hospice care over the next three years by further developing palliative care throughout Ireland, with particular reference…

While a majority of people in the Republic of Ireland say they would like to die at home, the reality is that almost half of all deaths occur in acute hospitals. The Hospice Friendly Hospitals Programme aims to ensure that end-of-life care is central to the mission of…

HUNDREDS of runners are set to take to the roads around Youghal next Sunday in a bid to raise funds for one of Cork's best known charities. Youghal Athletic Club and local man Martin Drake have come together to organise a four-mile charity run with…

This baseline study found a wide regional divergence in the range of services and care options available to people in the Republic of Ireland and also revealed a significant shortfall in government funding as well as a consequent lack of progress in the development of…

By Tommy Barker.  THE planned sale of a 140-year-old hospital will help fund the move to a new €55 million hospice facility, west of Cork city.Marymount/St Patrick’s Hospital is vacating its historic city home at Wellington Road, St Luke’s Cross, ending a continuous caring link…

by Grainne Cunningham NO-ONE should have to endure the "fear and the pain and the dread" that goes with terminal illness without the sort of palliative care received by writer Nuala O'Faolain in her dying days, her old friend Marian Finucane said last night. Ms…

A €60 million hospital providing palliative care and services for older people will open in Cork this September, reports Olivia Kelleher. Marymount/St Patrick’s Hospital is leaving its historic city home at Wellington Road, St Luke’s Cross, where it has been since 1870. The new hospice…

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Republic of Ireland Excerpt: The Tánaiste and the Minister for Health has described as appalling the lack of privacy given to terminally ill patients in hospitals. Mary Harney added that spending on hospices should be doubled. Launching a study that shows the northwest area is…