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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 –…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

It's not due to open until July next year, but the bold new St. Patrick's Hospital and Marymount Hospice site in Curraheen is already taking shape. DAVID FORSYTHE had a guided tour of the new EUR55million complex IF you've driven along the Ballincollig Bypass lately,…

Barry Roche, Southern Correspondent Summary: The Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded a grant to St Patrick's Hospital Ltd for its Marymount Hospice, which cares for terminally ill patients throughout Cork city and county, in the Republic of Ireland. Click here for more: http://www.ireland.com/ (subscribers only)

A new €58 million palliative care centre and hospital was officially opened yesterday in Curraheen, Cork, following the transfer of patients from the facility’s previous home on the city’s northside at a site that was in operation for more than 100 years. Kevin O’Dwyer, chief…

[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…