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Kilkenny disability service awarded almost €100,000

By Colin Bartley 2nd February 2021 0

Close to €100,000 has been earmarked for two projects at one of Kilkenny’s disability services centre. The investment in St Patrick’s Centre on the Kells Road in the city will see the upgrade of the building and funding to upgrade the IT infrastructure. The €93,694 funding was announced by Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan, who […]

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St Luke’s Hospital gets €2.5m to finally make MRI scanner project a reality

By Colin Bartley 19th December 2019 Post a comment

St Luke’s General Hospital has finally been promised €2.5 million for the provision of the long-awaited MRI scanner as part of the Health Service Executive’s National Service Plan for 2020. Just over €3.25 million has been set aside for projects specific to Kilkenny under the plan which was released this week. Spending on essential local […]

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Centre for adults with disabilities in Kilkenny receives a damning report

By Kilkenny Now 29th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY A DESIGNATED centre for adults with disabilities in Kilkenny city was found in general to be failing to meet the standards required in the provision of care to its patients. The Greenfield’s Centre, which is part of Saint Patrick’s Centre, Kilkenny was found to be substandard in more than two-thirds of the […]

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Kilkenny boy with intellectual disabililty left languishing in hospital bed at €150k cost to taxpayer

By Kilkenny Now 27th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY IT has cost the taxpayer €150,000 to keep a Kilkenny boy with intellectual disabilities in a hospital bed because funding has not been provided to move him to a permanent home. The boy has been left languishing in a ward at St Luke’s General Hospital since last November because of an ongoing […]

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Workplace Relations Comission to intervene in St Patrick’s Centre dispute

By Kilkenny Now 18th June 2019 0

THE Workplace Relations Commissioner has been asked to intervene to help resolve ongoing issues at St Patrick’s Centre in Kilkenny. The news was confirmed by unions representing staff at St Patrick’s, which found itself engulfed in a dispute since the current board announced plans to step down later this year. St Patrick’s provides specialist services […]