The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

Reforms after the Irish War of Independence resulted in the abolition of Boards of Guardians in the jurisdiction of the Irish Free State and their replacement by County Boards of Health.

In June 2006, the Health Consumer Powerhouse ranked the Irish health service as the second least " consumer-friendly " in the European Union and Switzerland, coming 25th out of 26 countries, ahead of Lithuania.

Sixty percent of respondents to an Irish Times / TNS mrbi poll in December 2006 said that the appointment of Harney to the position of Minister for Health had not led to any improvement in the health service.

The same year, in her capacity as Minister for Health, Mary Harney introduced risk equalisation into the Irish healthcare market.

In her first interview since leaving office, Harney said she joined the board of two Irish ' high-potential ' start-ups, Cara Health and Ward Biotech.

As Minister for Health and Children in 2004, he introduced a ban on tobacco smoking in all Irish workplaces and established the Health Service Executive ( HSE ).

Michael Woods ( born 8 December 1935 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide range of cabinet positions, most notably as Minister for Agriculture and Food, Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Health.

The Department of Health ( DH ) is a department of the United Kingdom government with responsibility for government policy for health and social care matters and for the National Health Service ( NHS ) in England along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish governments.

* Donogh O ' Malley, former Irish Minster for Health and Minister for Education.

The Stewarts complex houses the administration of the Irish Health Service Executive.

In Toronto, during the Typhus epidemic of 1847, 863 Irish immigrants died of typhus at fever sheds built by the Toronto Board of Health at the northwest corner of King Street and John Street.

Ireland prefaces its warnings with " Irish Government Warning ", Latvia with " Veselības ministrija brīdina " ( Health Ministry Warning ) and Spain with " Las Autoridades Sanitarias Advierten ( The Health Board Warns ).

After studying hygiene, physiology and district nursing in Ireland, she lectured on first aid and home care for the Irish Women's National Health Association.

In 2001, he was appointed Health spokesperson for the Progressive Democrats, and successfully spearheaded his party's campaign to have a Treatment Purchase Fund included in the Government Health Strategy, as a means of reducing public patient waiting lists in Irish hospitals.

Current Irish politicians who live in the area are ; Eamon Ryan the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and ; Mary Harney, former Minister for Health and Children and Tánaiste.

Since the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 responsibility in the government for healthcare had lain with the Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

Regarding healthcare, the National Health Service of the United Kingdom was noticed by the Irish political system, as well as other international trends of the era.

Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going specially to the United Nations in New York to demand UN involvement in the Northern Ireland " Troubles ".

In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell told Dáil Éireann that the organisation had a maximum of 150 members.

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

* Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada, child of Irish Quebecers.

* Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada, mother an Irish Quebecer.

The Minister for the Environment was criticised for allegedly changing the law to suit one company and other agencies protested the law change as damaging to small businesses while the government defended their decision stating that the move was a positive one for Irish consumers.

* 1990 – Terence O ' Neill, Baron O ' Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ( b. 1914 )

In 13 November 1997, Liz O ' Donnell ( Irish Minister for State ) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.

The Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern visited Lesotho in 2000.

* 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

* 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.

* 1925 – Charles Haughey, Irish politician, 7th Prime Minister of Ireland ( d. 2006 )

* 1914 – Terence O ' Neill, Baron O ' Neill of the Maine, Irish politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland ( d. 1990 )

Further, Prime Minister Éamon de Valera used the departure of the Monarch as an opportunity to remove all monarchical language from the Constitution of the Irish Free State.

These were slaughtered by government forces, but these rebellions convinced the British under Prime Minister William Pitt that the only solution was to end Irish independence once and for all.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.

* October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.

On October 11 negotiations were opened under British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Arthur Griffith, who headed the Irish Republic's delegation.

During their period in office, the Irish Green Party held two Cabinet portfolios including Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

Lloyd George ( British Prime Minister at the time ) attempted to persuade other nations that it was not a war by refusing to use the army and using the Black and Tans instead but the conflict was conducted as an asymmetric guerilla war and was registered as a war with the League of Nations by the Irish Free State.

Following the collapse of the rebellion, the British Prime Minister William Pitt introduced a bill to abolish the Irish parliament and manufactured a Union between Ireland and Britain.

* Frank Aiken ( 1898 – 1983 ), born in County Armagh, Irish Republican, Irish Minister for External Affairs, Tánaiste