‘My children would be alive if I knew about my wife’s illness’
Bereaved call for changes to mental health patient confidentiality following killings
Mary Butler
Billy Kelleher allies believe there is ‘route to win’ Fianna Fáil presidential nomination, despite Jim Gavin’s lead
Fianna Fáil will make its choice in a secret ballot of its 71 parliamentary party members next Tuesday
‘Once somebody shares the fact they are thinking about suicide, there’s a connection to life’
A €2 million investment in counselling supports for men aims to help break the silence around mental health
Semi-synthetic cannabinoid HHC reclassified as an illegal drug
Drug is commonly sold in e-cigarettes and vape pens or in edibles jellies
Miriam Lord’s Dáil end-of-term awards: from cute hoors to rookie errors and good operators
Big Jim is best in class, although sluggish start means new intake of TDs are yet to get much of a look-in - and as for Tipperary’s kingmaker...
How eating disorders are changing: ‘I’m not the stereotype. I’m a man, I’m plus-sized’
People with complex eating disorders face challenges in their illness, in accessing treatment in Ireland and on the road to recovery
Government accepts ‘super junior’ Ministers are involved in decision-making at Cabinet with no constitutional basis, court hears
Four super-junior Ministers currently attend Cabinet
Opposition parties continue to boycott pairing arrangements for absent Ministers
Long-standing Dáil custom is most commonly used when a Minister travels abroad or is sick
Mental health waiting lists for children not improving despite €30m extra funding
Limerick area ‘exemplar’ of good performance but Cork and Kerry list remains long
Mental Health Bill bypassing health committee ‘sets a dangerous precedent’, says chair
Minister for Mental Health says she wants to ensure Bill is enacted by end of year
Extensions to planning permissions for developments delayed by judicial reviews to be considered
Proposed measure is bid to activate developments such as large-scale apartment schemes which might otherwise go beyond their permission timeline
Ask the experts: why are suicide rates reaching 20-year lows in Ireland?
The latest provisional rate is the lowest for two decades
Surge in child ADHD diagnoses sees two HSE areas contain half of spiralling waiting lists
Mary Butler said two HSE areas were now bearing 50 per cent of the national waiting list
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy bears ‘no ill will’ after winning confidence motion
Taoiseach accused Opposition of ‘mob politics’, while Sinn Féin leader said Verona Murphy’s role was ‘delivered’ by Michael Lowry
Verona Murphy will survive vote of confidence as Ceann Comhairle but at what cost to her standing?
Row over speaking rights has put all other Dáil business in abeyance for two months
Government plan to push through changes to Dáil speaking rights criticised as ‘brazen’ and ‘outrageous’
Long-running dispute centres on efforts to carve out speaking time for a small group of Independents involved in Government-formation talks
Eating disorders: ‘I wouldn’t speak to my worst enemy the way I talked to myself’
Bulimia, anorexia and other such disorders affect almost 190,000 people in Ireland, but help is available
Opposition to block formation of Oireachtas committees if Dáil speaking row not resolved
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy has cleared all other items from the agenda of Wednesday’s meeting in bid to end the dispute
Combined Opposition leaders firmly oppose ‘cynical attempt to manipulate speaking time’ in Dáil
Government proposals to resolve row over speaking rights ‘utterly unacceptable and will not be tolerated’
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil divided over proposed tax breaks for developers to boost supply of homes
Simon Harris warns over failed policies of the past, but Micheál Martin’s party wants drastic action to meet housing targets
Will Dáil speaking rights row explode again?
Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy sought to end impasse but Michael Lowry is not ready to let matter rest
Government to contest ‘simplistic but false’ claims by Sinn Féin TD in ‘super junior’ challenge
Rossa Fanning said ‘prompt’ resolution of the case is in the public interest
‘Another stroke’: Fresh plan to give Michael Lowry’s group Dáil speaking time criticised by Opposition
Government plan is ‘total arrogance’ on the back of a ‘grubby deal’, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says
Who’s in the Cabinet? All the Ministers appointed by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and their roles
Simon Harris takes Foreign Affairs, while Helen McEntee moves to Education, making way for Jim O’Callaghan at Justice
Ministers to be unveiled today as almost all departments set to change
Fianna Fáil’s Mary Butler and Fine Gael’s Martin Heydon are among TDs tipped for promotion
Ireland’s next government: Butler, Calleary, Heydon and Carroll MacNeill tipped for promotion
Fianna Fáil set to have 8 Cabinet seats and 7 will go to Fine Gael with Micheál Martin becoming next Taoiseach
Only certain ministerial job appointments so far are the five Independent TDs
Speculation intensifying six days ahead of formal appointment of new Cabinet next Wednesday
Waterford: Mary Butler (FF)
Fianna Fáil TD has been Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People since July 2020
Waterford constituency candidates list: Fine Gael will be gunning to retake a seat here
Election 2024: Sinn Féin has chance at second seat in home of one of its highest vote-getters David Cullinane
Fianna Fáil Minister of State’s constituency office in Waterford vandalised
Mary Butler says she will ‘not be deterred’ as slogans spray painted on her base in city
Agent Cobalt slips off the radar as the truth comes dropping slow from Sinn Féin
Taoiseach and his wife celebrate his birthday by going to see the musical Hamilton, which contains the perfect chorus for a young and hungry leader on the brink of his first general election
Overhaul of Camhs includes independent regulation and ‘person-centric’ approach
Mental Health Bill, a significant reworking of the State’s mental health laws, comes to Cabinet this week
Husband of woman who killed herself and couple’s child says she was ‘screaming for help’ but not getting it
Darren Coleman says his wife, Nicola Keane, was not a monster but a ‘really, really ill person’
Scale of referendums losses sets Government reeling with elections on the horizon
‘Volatility and unpredictability in Ireland even greater than in 2020,′ says Cabinet source after referendums defeated
‘We didn’t do our job well enough’: Minister of State criticises colleagues over referendum campaign
Michael McNamara says no votes in family and care referendums cast Irish parliament in ‘a very dim light’
Gardaí investigating targeted attack on a car belonging to a Minister
The tyres on Minister for State Mary Butler’s car were slashed and punctured
A politician under threat: ‘I stay in the Dáil all day and it’s straight over to Buswells for the night’
Fianna Fáil junior minister Mary Butler received a threat of violence against her during the summer, leading gardaí to offer her security advice at her home and constituency offices
Suicidal young people must wait more than 200 days for assessment in some parts of country
‘Our mental health system is truly broken if we cannot give interventions for our young people contemplating suicide,’ says Sinn Féin’s Mark Ward in reference to the long waits for access to Camhs' services
Varadkar urged to publicly address inadequate child mental health service
Improving the child and mental health service should be a ‘huge priority’, say Mental Health Reform
Camhs: At risk-children will remain vulnerable to being ‘disappeared’ in Ireland unless attitudes change
Dr John Hillery was speaking at the publication of the devastating report on how Camhs is failing children and their families
Homecare dispute nears resolution after providers accept HSE tender offer
Over 40,000 people receive care supplied under contract from members of Home and Community Care Ireland and The National Community Care Network
Varadkar urged to intervene amid protests over nursing home in Cork leaving Fair Deal
Relatives of Fair Deal residents in Beaumont say they simply want parity of support for their loved ones with residents of HSE run homes
Cork faces nursing home bed losses if Fair Deal rates not increased, warns operator
CareChoice, which has already withdrawn Beaumont care home from scheme, cautioned its five other homes in Cork region may also be at risk
‘Gaping holes’ in child disability services leaving vulnerable children at risk, committee hears
HSE officials confirm more than 700 vacancies across services, with some network teams having vacancy rates of up to 65%
Home care services weeks away from ‘chaos’ without new tender, sector warns
Failure to agree new HSE tender before old one expires would put services in ‘legal limbo’, says representative group
Older people might be ‘frightened’ by rental plan for nursing home residents, says Minister
Fianna Fáil's Mary Butler expresses concern that Government decision could lead to ‘premature’ entry of older people into nursing homes
Eviction ban: Two high-stakes Dáil votes imminent as Opposition seeks to maintain pressure after defeat
Support was buttressed by support from Independents after Government accommodated a range of demands
Fianna Fáil minister says she ‘wasn’t consulted’ on plans to allow Fair Deal recipients keep full rental income
Minister for Older People Mary Butler says she was ‘disappointed’ by decision and wasn’t consulted in advance
Andrew McGinley: ‘I know every detail about how my children died, but I still don’t understand why’
Three years after his children died at the hands of their mentally ill mother, father is raising funds for one of the charities set up in their honour
State should roll back reliance on private nursing homes, says Minister
Charity criticises additional charges for services levied on residents in private facilities
Over 850 hospital bed days lost this year amid renewed pressure on emergency departments
First cases of ‘concerning’ new Covid-19 subvariant detected in Ireland
‘Maybe I would be better off not to know where I am’: nursing home closure upsets resident
Just a year after 89-year-old Michael Collins settled into a nursing home, it closed, one of 17 such closures due by the end of the year
Homecare shortage leaves more than 1,000 patients stuck in hospital
Delayed discharges carry increased risk of infection, create lost bed days and can lengthen waiting lists
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