A man charged with falsely imprisoning the son of a post mistress and demanding a ransom for his safe return, has been refused bail.

The matter returns to the Court of Appeal next week to determine whether a retrial would be appropriate.

Ireland’s first doctor-led flying doctor service will be airborne by summer.

A Cork man given eight years jail for seriously assaulting his wife, who refused to give evidence against him in court, faces a retrial following a successful appeal.

A €40m plan to deal with the anticipated surge in hospital activities over the winter has been described as a “drop in the ocean” by doctors at a time when operations are already being cancelled and daily trolley figures frequently exceed 400.

A youth accused of leaving a young actor permanently scarred by slashing his face with a broken bottle has been sent forward for trial.

A young actor was left permanently scarred after a horrific Dublin city centre attack when a teenage boy slashed his face in a row about drugs, a court has heard.

A 16-year-old boy charged with attacking a young man who suffered serious facial injuries during an incident in Dublin City centre has been further remanded in custody.

A 16 year-old boy charged with attacking a young man who suffered serious facial injuries during an incident in Temple Bar in Dublin has been readmitted to bail with stricter conditions.

A 16-year-old boy has been barred from Dublin city-centre after he was charged with attacking a young man who suffered serious facial injuries during an incident in Temple Bar.

A 16-year-old male has been arrested today in connection with a serious assault in Dublin city centre.

A Cork woman was thrown down the stairs by her “perfectionist” husband after she cooked his pork chops in the oven instead of frying them.

An eight-year-old girl died in a horrific road accident while on holiday in West Cork last year.

A Limerick man who was part of a three-person gang involved in the tiger kidnapping of a post office manager’s son has had his sentence adjourned to allow a suspended sentence hanging over him from Cork Circuit Court be dealt with.

Following a 13-day trial at Limerick Circuit Court, a man was yesterday found guilty of abducting the son of a Limerick postmistress and his friend.

A man accused of abducting the son of a Limerick post mistress dyed his hair some days after the incident, a jury heard yesterday.

The son of a Limerick postmistress made a dramatic dash for freedom through open countryside after being abducted from his home at gunpoint, a court heard.

The son of a Limerick postmistress had a gun put to his head when armed and masked raiders entered his home, a court heard.

A man yesterday told how, after he and a friend were abducted, he was freed and told his friend would be killed if his friend’s mother did not pay €500,000.

After being kidnapped at gunpoint, the son of a Limerick postmaster was threatened with death unless his parents handed over a substantial sum of money, a court heard.

It started as a wheeze four years ago, dreamt up by the marketing gurus in Guinness, but it now looks like time is about to be called on Arthur’s Day, writes Micheal Clifford

One of the country’s largest hospitals will be forced to cope with an “unprecedented” drop in key emergency department staff from next month because of a chronic manpower crisis.

When eminent emergency consultant Stephen Cusack describes the streets of Cork as being like the “last days of Sodom and Gomorrah” (Irish Examiner, Sept 29), it scarcely leaves anything to the imagination with regard to the “success” of Diageo’s day of disaster.

A leading emergency consultant in Cork has described Arthur’s Day as “really regrettable” and “the last thing this country needs”.

A man has appeared before a special court sitting in Limerick, charged with the false imprisonment of a teenger.

A man has been arrested in Limerick in connection with an abduction which took place earlier this week.

A 15-year-old boy has been released on bail today after being charged with the false imprisonment of a man in Co Limerick.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a botched tiger kidnapping in Co Limerick.

ALL I want for Christmas is — world peace?

THE head of the country’s oldest maternity hospital has repeated a 266-year-old plea for Santa to solve his facility’s funding and staffing crisis because health service management can’t do so.

A DOCTOR who was discharged from Cork University Hospital (CUH) diagnosed with a migraine died within days after undergoing high-risk brain surgery for a ruptured aneurysm, an inquest heard yesterday.

The father of a survivor of the Cork plane crash has been speaking about how his son managed to free himself from the wreckage.

A MAJOR international air accident investigation is underway to establish why an aircraft crashed in heavy fog on its third landing attempt at Cork Airport yesterday, killing six of the 12 passengers on board.

ONE of Ireland’s top emergency medics said he was amazed anyone survived the crash.

A relative of Ireland’s President has died along with two other businessmen from the North, a UK citizen, and a Spanish pilot and British co-pilot in a plane crash in Cork Airport.

One of Ireland’s top emergency medics said he was amazed anyone survived the crash.

HOSPITAL consultants are urging pedestrians to exercise caution in the current icy conditions, amid reports of hospital Emergency Departments being inundated with fractures and other injuries.

THE doctor tasked with overseeing the reconfiguration of hospitals in the Health Service Executive (HSE) South has pledged to end the use of trolleys within two years.

THE head of the HSE South’s controversial hospital reconfiguration plan has claimed new medical assessment units (MAUs) at all facilities will make hospital trolleys obsolete.

A RETIRED plasterer died after a tragic accident while building a house for his daughter and her boyfriend.

SEVEN firefighters have joined Limerick city’s fire service, the first group in 20 years to have been trained in Ireland.

ONE-IN-FOUR people over the age of 50 arrive in accident and emergency departments with insufficient knowledge of their medical condition and medication, an A&E consultant warned yesterday.

ONE man’s dream to get Ireland’s first dedicated air ambulance service off the ground was launched yesterday.

DISRUPTION to patient services at Cork University Hospital (CUH) was minimal yesterday.

SEVERE overcrowding in some A&E units pushed patient trolley numbers to an all-time high of 455 yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO).

CORK is missing a vital facility needed to cope with a major disaster, it was claimed last night.

THE cost of running the new A&E unit at Cork University Hospital increased by €1m in the three months after it opened and a further e1m increase is expected by mid-October.

Tánaiste and Health Minister, Mary Harney, is in Cork today to officially open the new €10.8m Accident and Emergency department at Cork University Hospital.