The 40-year-old was in the care of Roscommon Mental Health Services at the time.

The average is around five in every 100 people, however it's almost nine in every 100 at the Co Cork facility.

A lucky Waterford winner has won €1m in last night's EuroMillions draw.

Lorraine and Warren Reilly, who lost two baby girls in two years at Portiuncula University Hospital, have called for a “cultural shift” right up to the highest levels of management in the HSE.

Inadequate staff, substandard skills and training, a lack of input for midwives, poor communication, delays in intervening when issues arose during labour — these are just some of the deficiencies identified in a damning report on maternity services in Portiuncula Hospital.

A man has died in a car accident in Co. Galway.

"As a family we have grieved so much for Asha. Our daughter Angel still talks about her. The pain of losing her will never leave us."

Two men have been arrested by gardaí investigating the serious assault of a 20-year-old man in Roscommon Town on August 30.

A 20-year-old man is seriously ill in hospital after he was injured in a stabbing in Roscommon Town.

A man has died in a crash in Co Offaly.

The parents of a baby girl who died two days after birth have welcomed a coroner’s recommendation for more frequent examinations for women in high risk pregnancy.

Two Government ministers have backed plans for an imminent review of the religious patronage of more than a dozen hospitals across the country, after Health Minister Simon Harris publicly confirmed he is planning the move.

A Co Galway couple say they were horrified after Portiuncula Hospital carried out a review into the death of their baby - without their knowledge.

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A mother planning to deliver naturally following a C-section 14 months previously, lost her baby two days after birth.

There were 520 patients on trolleys awaiting a bed yesterday, with Cork University Hospital recording the highest number in the country at 54.

A young man was seriously injured and two children aged two and six have been taken to hospital after a two-car crash this morning.

THE opposite may be intended, but there is something worrying about walking into a hospital and finding instructions on the wall explaining when and how to wash your hands.

One in five hospitals inspected last year had to undergo a follow-up inspection due to poor hygiene and maintenance issues.

A major acute hospital in Cork continues to use operating theatres identified as not being fit for purpose by the Health Information and Quality Authority.

The man who was killed in Wednesday’s workplace accident and his critically injured brother are cousins of the Irish International football captain, Robbie Keane, it has emerged.

The make-up of a review team to examine at least 12 cases of questionable care of newborns at Portiuncula Hospital which left some babies dead and others brain damaged has been announced.

We can only have confidence again in our maternity services by way of a wholly independent, root-and-branch evaluation followed by swift action to effect radical change, writes Victoria White

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has criticised the HSE over its threat of legal action to prevent the publication of a report in its current form into the deaths of five babies at the Midlands Hospital.

The review of the maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Laois, will start in the coming weeks and is expected to take up to five months.

Fair Deal, the State’s nursing home support scheme, has become the Achilles heel of the acute hospital system, according to HSE director general Tony O’Brien.

Last week, we heard a powerful, well-connected individual was apparently being subjected to “Kafkaesque” treatment by the State. The claim reeked of hyperbole, and lacked all credibility.

A family who lost two newborn babies half a decade ago at a hospital now facing a “too similar” maternity services crisis has claimed the current scandal would not exist if officials acted on what happened.

The HSE is investigating the deaths of 30 babies at Irish hospitals, it has been revealed.

TWO BABIES born late last year in Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe have died. Seven families in all have had their babies referred for “brain cooling” because of suspected “apoxia” — lack of oxygen to the brain — during their births at the hospital.

Two widowers whose wives died due to maternity service mistakes have urged the HSE to “learn the lessons” of what happened after admitting they still have “worries and concerns” over care standards.

The group which runs Portiuncula Hospital is operating a helpline for all users of its maternity services who may have concerns after a review identified "apparent deficiencies" in the care of seven babies.

Whether the babies deprived of oxygen during delivery at Portiuncula Hospital will suffer long-term effects is unclear — but despite the uncertainty around the five cases, the health minister has reassured women that maternity services are safe.

Maternity services at a Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co Galway have become the latest to be probed. It follows the deaths of two babies, and oxygen deprivation to five others.

Maternity services at a Galway hospital have become the latest to be probed following the deaths of two babies and oxygen deprivation to five others.

The health minister has been urged to halt a change of name for the group of public hospitals in the west.

A garda forensic team in Galway are to carry out an examination of the scene of a fatal two-car crash.

Gardaí who removed a two-year-old Roma boy from his home in Athlone last October because he looked too fair-haired and pale-skinned, dismissed as irrelevant the fact that he was medically diagnosed as albino.

A woman has died after a two-car collision on the old N6, Athlone to Ballinasloe Road.

A man in his 20s is undergoing surgery in Dublin following a serious assault in Athlone overnight.

A retired plasterer is to receive €1.5m after claiming that a defibrillator repeatedly failed to deliver shocks while he was being resuscitated for cardiac arrest.

A leading regional hospital is putting patients at “immediate serious risk” by failing to meet vital health and safety policies designed to ensure the welfare of the public.

Anti-abortion group Youth Defence has rejected criticism of the use of controversial images in its campaign ads and compared them to the publications of corpses in Nazi death camps.

Criticism of the decision to allow the wife of a member of the Oireachtas committee hearing submissions on abortion to make her own submission has been rejected by her husband.

Seriously ill children sent to emergency departments are not being treated away from adult patients, including many who are violent and drunk, a HSE report claims.