IT’S less than a year since the last detached family home in a great Beaumont Drive setting in Cork’s halo-ed and hallowed Blackrock hinterland came to market. 

Gardaí are renewing their appeals for information in connection with the deaths of a couple in Mayo.

Beaumont Hospital in Dublin is restricting visits due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

All non-urgent elective surgeries have again been cancelled at Cork University Hospital because of overcrowding.

The Irish Patients Association has said that the overcrowding crisis in hospitals like Beaumont in Dublin is akin to a warzone.

The family of a man who has gone missing from his home in Beaumont say they are concerned for his welfare.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has played down reports that a new hospital is struggling to fill its beds because it is on the "wrong" side of the Liffey.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar is promising overcrowding in hospitals will ease in the coming days - but has warned that a long-term fix could take at least 18 months to sort out.