*Staff at St Flannan’s College have objected to the development. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has suffered a fresh setback in its plans to advance its contentious €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s College.
Tristan Casson-Rennie Chief Executive Officer FASD Ireland. Photograph: Natasha Barton. ONE OF Clare’s newest councillors is leading the campaign to have Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FASD) officially recognised by the HSE.
*Teachers at St Flannan’s College where the site is earmarked for. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has given the HSE a deadline of later this month to confirm that there is Uisce Éireann capacity to accommodate its contentious plan for a €25m community hospital on diocesan-owned green space at St Flannan’s college.
VISITING RESTRICTIONS are to be implemented across all of UL Hospital Group’s hospitals following a spike in hospitalisations of persons with the flu.
*Cllr Antoinette Baker Bashua (FF). Photograph: Eamon Ward AN ENNIS breast cancer survivor has made an emotional plea for the HSE to issue patients with “critical illnesses” to be allocated a medical card.
*Photograph: Sean Curtin / True Media A JUDGE has awarded a retired HSE multi-task hospital attendant €10,000 compensation for an injury sustained from a used COVID-19 vaccination needle stick to a middle finger.
*Emma and Anne Malone in Whitegate. Photograph: Ruth Griffin A WHITEGATE mother of four is pleading with Clare’s elected TDs to fight for a respite house to be opened in East Clare.
A CLARE Senator has called for the establishment of a statutory enquiry “to bring closure to the family of Aoife Johnston and establish the true facts of the night” that led to her tragic death in University Hospital Limerick.
*Aoife Johnston. SHANNON teenager Aoife Johnston’s death was “almost certainly avoidable,” a new report has found.
