The admission of nine children to an adult psychiatric unit in Kilkenny in breach of regulation has been criticised by the Mental Health Commission (MHC).

Nine people were arrested on suspicion of drink driving during a co-ordinated, nationwide Garda blitz over the weekend.

A FAMILY are desperately seeking to stop the forced administration of electric shock therapy on a 40-year-old man who is being involuntarily detained at Lakeview mental health unit in Naas, Co Kildare.

A ROUTINE Garda checkpoint in a Co Cork town has led to the seizure of 50,000 cigarettes.

Four children have died after a school bus and two other vehicles crashed in Minnesota.

A NEWBORN baby boy died as a result of an “acute near-drowning incident” while being delivered in a birthing pool at Cavan General Hospital last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

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