The number is down from yesterday's figure of 679 which was the highest figure of the year so far.

An elderly man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in a fall while taking part in a fishing competition in Co Clare this afternoon.

A couple has taken a legal challenge over a coroner's refusal to await the report of an external review into the care of their 19-year-old daughter at Sligo University Hospital before resuming an inquest into her death.

A ‘rampaging ram’ that terrorised sightseers at Downpatrick Head, an iconic Co Mayo beauty spot, has been placed under strict farmyard detention by its owner.

Three men lay in wait for the pair behind a tree, before ambushing them as they walked down Henry Street towards the Al Furqan Mosque on Windmill Street, Limerick City Centre.

Minister of State John Halligan has added his voice to calls for an independent investigation into mortuary facilities at University Hospital Waterford as the journalist who broke the story tells of six families who have raised concerns.

The Taoiseach has said holding an investigation into claims by consultants that dead bodies were left decomposing on a mortuary corridor at University Hospital Waterford is not one of his priorities.

A teenage boy has died following a quad bike accident in Kerry.

An elderly man with a serious heart condition is currently waiting on a trolley on a busy corridor in University Hospital Galway since Sunday lunchtime.

Tributes have been paid to HPV vaccine campaigner Laura Brennan, who has died from cervical cancer at the age of 26.

Only one service in Cork met all its punctuality targets last year.

A 16-year-old girl has died from injuries sustained after she was hit by a car in Ballincollig in Cork on Monday.

Blood was smeared on the walls and door of a garda station cell by a man arrested for a violent outburst at Cork University Hospital.

A mother who is pleading for a licence for medicinal cannabis for her sick toddler who suffers from seizures plans to climb Croagh Patrick this Sunday in order to highlight her plight.

Members of the Polish community gathered in solidarity yesterday at a special Mass in memory of father of two Mikolaj Wilk, who was murdered in a machete attack in Ballincollig, Co Cork, at the weekend.

All patients waiting more than nine months for “high volume” operations or procedures are to be offered treatment by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted he is baffled by the sky-rocketing trolley count crisis after claiming he does not know why the situation is spiralling out of control.

The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) air ambulance is on standby at Shannon Airport rather than its usual base in Athlone.

A local authority has defended the installation of an unsightly steel railing along an historic city quay.

Update: The man has been pronounced dead in hospital.

The body of Willie Lynch has been removed from his house in the village of Pallaskenry, Co Limerick this afternoon.

Fire brigade first responders successfully resuscitated an unresponsive patient as there was no HSE ambulance available in the area at the time.

THIS week marked two anniversaries of tragedies — or atrocities if you’d prefer to be more direct — where too many lives were needlessly lost. 

A farmer has sustained gunshot wounds in a suspected dispute with another farmer over access to land.

Nurses have expressed serious patient safety concerns ahead of next week’s move to the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick.

A VALUE of over €1 million per acre has been put on what is surely one of the best located suburban Cork sites to come to market in a decade, in Bishopstown, close to the CUH, third level colleges and the city’s ring road.

A man who made several recent attempts at self-harm was on about 20 anti-depression tablets a day, he told a judge at his sentencing hearing yesterday.

Trampoline and bouncing castles are causing preventable accidents that are clogging up our emergency departments.

USA:  Police say a 29-year-old man in Philadelphia continued to drive a car after being shot twice in the head.

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A teenage boy drowned after he went into a river on a horse only for the animal to be plunged underwater because of a sudden drop caused by erosion, Cork Coroner’s Court has heard.

The HSE’s apology to the parents of Alex Butler was not sincere, writes Catherine Shanahan

The HSE has said it is to investigate concerns raised by a well-known Limerick businesswoman after she experienced "hell on earth" in a psychiatric hospital unit in Limerick.

A 16-month-old toddler is in a serious condition in hospital after she was run over in the driveway of a house in Galway yesterday evening.

If there was one over-riding message that HSE honchos wanted media to take from a tour of the new acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital on January 20, it was that all was well.

A local authority has moved to acquire the derelict former home of maths genius George Boole, the father of modern computer science.