The Latest Breaking News from Mater

Almost 200 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes join Irish charity swim

Marilyn’s Mater Paddle, now in its second year, held at Balcarrick beach to raise funds for women’s cancer care

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2025

These women were told their babies would not survive – but Catholic-run public hospitals refused to provide abortions

Both Jennifer and Amy were devastated when their wanted pregnancies were deemed unviable, but they were forced to go elsewhere when Australia’s Catholic-run public hospitals would not terminate

The Guardian - AU · Sep 5, 2023

‘I was shocked’: Catholic-run public hospitals refuse to provide birth control and abortion

Publicly funded Catholic hospitals across Australia are using the cover of religion to opt out of providing reproductive care – and experts say it has created a ‘postcode lottery’ for access to services

The Guardian - AU · Aug 21, 2023

Dozens of beds lying empty and unused at military hospitals as country battles raging trolley crisis

One of these was St Bricin’s in Dublin city centre, which is just a stone’s throw from the Mater hospital in Dublin 7.

Irish Mirror · Jan 8, 2023

Woman dies suddenly after becoming unwell following routine surgery at Mater Private

A consultant surgeon told a sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court that he had never seen a patient experience such complications in over 14 years

Irish Mirror · Oct 18, 2022

Irish nurse still suffering severe Long Covid symptoms two years after catching virus and fears clinic closure

Niamh Hughes, 37, has been out of work since March 2021 and suffers with brain fog, fatigue and headaches since she got the virus in late 2020.

Irish Mirror · Aug 28, 2022

Mountjoy thugs suspected of killing inmate 'changed clothes' after vicious fatal attack

The investigation is continuing into O’Connor’s murder after his life-support machine was switched off in Dublin’s Mater Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Dublin Live · Aug 5, 2022

Man in his 50s killed in Dublin after overnight fire as Garda investigation launched

The blaze happened on the Saint Anne's Road in Drumconda in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning with the man being rushed to the Mater hospital

Irish Mirror · Jul 18, 2022

Mater patient in ICU with Covid didn't meet newborn baby for 5 weeks

Exclusive: Carol Walsh tells Dublin Live about her 64 days in ICU

Dublin Live · May 13, 2022

Dublin newsagent owner shares stories of locals 'from Mater to Mountjoy' including one-legged man who snuck out for cigarettes

The newsagents is on the same street as Mountjoy Prison and is directly across the road from the Mater Hospital

Dublin Live · Mar 5, 2022