THE head of one of Cork’s biggest hospitals wants new bylaws to ban smoking in the public areas outside the facility.

THE head of hospital services in the Health Service Executive (HSE) South has refused to rule out a downgrading of emergency department and surgical services in the region on a par with those being implemented in the Mid-West.

The 2007 Basketball Ireland Regional Camps are due to get underway in what will be the Organisations biggest programme of Summer Camps yet.