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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 –…

In February 2012, the staff and patients at St Patrick's Hospital Marymount Hospice in Cork moved from an old Victorian red brick building where the hospice had operated for 141 years to a new, best-in-class hospital that is the most advanced palliative care facility in…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="250"] Postgraduate research student Eric Farrell and Minister of Education and Science Mary Hanafin at Trinity College Dublin's Centre for Bioengineering. Photo: Trinity College Dublin[/caption] "Look, frankly you've got to invest in research," were Founding Chairman Chuck Feeney's words in 1998 to…