A former mental health nurse who strangled and butchered a dog and fed it to a pet is psychopathic, a doctor said. Dominic O’Connor, 28, faces up to five years
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Four staff members at a residential facility for vulnerable adults have been excluded from work amid a police investigation into concerns about their conduct. Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Antrim provides
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Brexit could have “serious implications” on Ireland’s struggling health workforce, one of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) top officials has warned. Jim Campbell, director of the WHO’s health workforce department,
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Women can be “destroyed” by having an abortion, a DUP MP has said. Jim Shannon said that often vulnerable young women “are themselves destroyed by the sorrow that can naturally
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Northern Ireland’s cash-strapped health service is paying up to £120 an hour for agency nurses as it struggles to plug chronic staff shortages, it can be revealed. Hospitals and clinics
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Victims of historical child abuse have urged Northern Ireland’s politicians to release compensation which has been blocked due to Stormont’s collapse, as talks aimed at restoring powersharing enter their final
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A challenge at the UK’s highest court over the legality of Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law has concluded. Seven Supreme Court justices in London will give a ruling on the
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Children as young as six are suffering from trauma related to the Troubles, an Irish government committee has been told. The Wave Trauma Centre, which supports people affected by the
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Women on low incomes from Northern Ireland who seek a free NHS abortion in England will also receive state support to pay for their travel costs, the Government has announced.
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The registration of social care staff will improve the quality of social care according to an evaluation exercise following Northern Ireland becoming the first region in the UK to introduce
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