Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

# Department of Health

All time
Leo Varadkar is being accused of leaking his own email
'I'm losing my sight, hearing, AND my place in Irish society'
Vaping is now officially less harmful than smoking, and it's time the Irish health authorities acknowledged that fact
Joe Dunne
Ireland won't be fined over 24-hour shifts for junior doctors
Dublin's three maternity hospitals are being moved to pastures new
Fianna Fáil wants a new tax... on sugar
'She's in agony': Four year old faces months of pain due to dental service cutback
There's been a breakthrough in those talks on free GP care for kids
'Unfair and unjust': Proposed hike in nursing home bills slammed
76,666: the exact number of people waiting for hospital treatment right now
It looks like the government is dropping plans to ban alcohol sponsorship of sport
Seagulls back in spotlight as Government seeks to 'eliminate' them from Department of Health
Department looks at options for lifting ban on gay men donating blood
New UK rules could allow embryos to be created from three people
'Organ donor cards don't work anymore, we need a new approach'
Varadkar to meet with Michelin-starred chef who wants to improve hospital food
Leo Varadkar really loves chicken wings
Leo wants to find out just how healthy Ireland is
'Serious allegations' of rigged waiting lists to be pursued by Department of Health
Anyone with a reinstated discretionary medical card 'need not worry'
'I'll give my opinion as a doctor and young man at a later stage' - Varadkar
"Deplorable overcrowding": Dozens on trolleys in Limerick hospital
HSE denies legal action taken to forcibly hydrate Miss Y, but is still reviewing what happened
Talks on new GP contract to start next month
'It's just not true': Leo insists the government didn't cook the books
Prescription charges bring in €120m but hurt 'most vulnerable in society'
The Health Department's new Secretary General has a masters from Harvard
Róisín Shortall: I'm surprised the 'very inexperienced' James Reilly wasn't sacked
So it turns out that 'free GP care' might not actually be free
The Briefcase: Russia freezes us out, house prices and drinking on the job
Here's why Leo Varadkar is looking to avoid 'land mines in Angola'
No tan for you: Children are officially banned from using sunbeds from today
HSE reports €163m deficit for first five months of the year
Ireland at the UN: We have 'no solution' for women who can't afford to travel for an abortion
James Reilly is still Health Minister... according to the Department's website
This 1940s letter describes the 'decent class' of unmarried mothers who were 'first offenders'
Death rate of babies at Tuam mother and baby home was double the rate of other homes
James Reilly just doesn't know if he'll be Minister for Health next week
The government is going to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes and ban their sale to under 18s
Warning of future nursing homes crisis if 'action isn't taken now'