CIVIL marriages can be conducted at a whole range of new venues because of the enactment of the Civil Registration Act 2007.

Professor Brendan Drumm, the chief executive of the Health Service Executive, denounced as “appalling” the misdiagnosis of breast cancer scans on seven women at Portlaoise hospital.

Spending hundreds of thousands of euro on something nobody wants is economic lunacy.

THERE remains a strong, widespread and emotional opposition to the State endorsing single-sex relationships by facilitating single-sex marriages.

THE GOVERNMENT cannot have been surprised by their poor showing in this week’s opinion poll, but whether the figures are startling enough to provoke any great degree of soul-searching in Fianna Fáil remains to be seen.

IN OUTLINING policing priorities for An Garda Síochána Justice Minister Brian Lenihan said the commissioner must tackle gun crime, organised gangs, the illicit drugs trade, public order and traffic matters as top priorities.

THE story of the seriously ill teenage girl who was left on a trolley at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital because there was no porter available to push her into an operating theatre for urgent surgery to stop internal bleeding is an outrage and has frightening implications.

THE Health Service Executive and its managers are frequently subjected to stern and justified criticism over the shortcomings of our health services.

YESTERDAY’S Health Research Board report on alcohol consumption confirmed what is already obvious.

NEXT August we will mark the 10th anniversary of the Omagh bombing.