No new hospital for Ennis
*Packed corridors at UHL. NO NEW hospital will be built in Ennis and instead a new site in close proximity to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will be constructed, as per new plans unveiled by the Minister for Health.
Angela Coll
Mary wants to make her mark & empower members as Fianna Fáil Chair
*Mary Crawford. FIANNA FÁIL’s new Chairperson in Clare has said she aims to “empower” members in the wake of their anger with the Presidential Election.
Inagh’s Mary Crawford elected first female chair of Fianna Fáil’s Clare branch
*File pic: Mary Crawford with Billy Kelleher MEP and Gerry Reidy. INAGH’s Mary Crawford has been elected as the first female Chair of Fianna Fáil’s Clare branch with the party’s AGM hearing if any apologies have been sent by Taoiseach Micheál Martin (FF) to the county following the Presidential election.
Pre-Budget submission made arguing case for new hospital with emergency department in Clare
*Angela Coll, Chairperson of Friends of Ennis Hospital (FEH). PLANNED bed blocks for University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will not alleviate overcrowding in the region and instead renewed Government focus must be placed on establishing an acute hospital in Clare with an emergency department, a local health activist group has argued.
Friends of Ennis Hospital meet with HIQA review team
*Ennis Hospital was on the agenda during the meeting. MEMBERS of Friends of Ennis Hospital on Wednesday morning met with representatives from the HIQA review team where they said the provision of a model four hospital in Ennis should also include a maternity wing.
Squabble between health activists at election hustings
HEALTH SERVICES in Clare remain an emotive subject and a clash between local activists sparked off this week.
‘Inevitable that HIQA will recommend opening of a second ED in the Mid-West’
*Ennis Hospital. HEALTH activists and politicians in Clare have said it is “inevitable” that a HIQA review will recommend the creation of a second emergency department in the Mid-West region.
Ex Minister & former Clare GAA Chairman among names in the mix to challenge Enright as Fianna Fáil Chair in Clare
Tony O’Brien and Mike Enright. Photograph: Joe Buckley A FORMER Minister for Defence and an ex Chairman of Clare GAA are among the names in the mix to contest the sitting Chairman of Clare Fianna Fáil for Monday’s AGM.
Friends of Ennis Hospital refute advice of HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer not to reopen emergency department
FRIENDS OF ENNIS Hospital have refuted the clinical advice of the HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer not to reopen 24 hour emergency departments in Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s.
Soothing words heighten tensions within Clare Fianna Fáil
*Cathal Crowe, Mike Enright and Timmy Dooley. AN EMERGENCY meeting of Fianna Fáil members takes place tonight (Wednesday) with one item on the agenda, that to discuss recent comments made by the party’s Clare chairman.