1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (724+ words) FOR OVER three decades, well-known Athy community figure, Chris Swaine, has lived with kidney disease, and is now in need of community support to get his health back on track. Diagnosed at just 20 years old with IgA Nephropathy and Focal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (947+ words) “THE best way I can describe it is like being in lockdown again.” WHEN Sylvia Ann Kelly’s six-year-old, James, went into autistic burnout more than a year ago, one symptom was that he refused to go back to school. That…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (109+ words) A man has died following a medical incident at Galway’s Ceannt train station in the city centre on Friday morning. The incident happened at 7am. Despite emergency services arriving on the scene and the best efforts of the medical team, the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (350+ words) Kildare County Council is to review accessible toilets in its public buildings and prepare a programme of stoma-friendly toilet upgrades, with a recent meeting hearing of the life-changing impact such facilities can have. Cllr Angela Feeney brought forward a motion…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (196+ words) Thousands of people don't have a GP, according to figures released by the HSE. Data provided to Newstalk shows over 5,700 people contacted the HSE this year after struggling to source their own GP. Figures show the number of GPs in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (540+ words) Sarah Vaughan from Newbridge A KILDARE woman has been named as the Patient Ambassador by the Irish Cancer Society for this year’s ‘Very Pink Run’ in aid of breast cancer research. Sarah Vaughan (33) from Allenwood Heights in Newbridge is just…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (141+ words) The Irish Heart Foundation's Mobile Health Unit THE Irish Heart Foundation's Mobile Health Unit will be in Kildare on Wednesday 29 July as part of its drive to offer free heart health checks in communities throughout Ireland. On Wednesday, the unit…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (580+ words) NAAS General Hospital has been ordered to pay a former catering employee €2,500 after the Work Relations Committee (WRC) found that it failed to adequately consider reasonable accommodation for her disability while she was on sick leave. The WRC found that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (374+ words) Figures from the HSE show 7,500 children are waiting for first contact with a Child Disability Network Team (CDNT) at the end of April. This is a drop from the 8,200 children who were waiting for first contact at the end of…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago   (315+ words) By Claudia Savage, Press Association A Belfast boy who inspired a campaign to change organ donation laws in Northern Ireland has received a new heart, with his family saying his wait is the longest of any child in the world....