Hospitals in Cork and Limerick have apologised to patients facing delays in their emergency departments and defended efforts made to address the problem.

Stephen Donnelly says the Government is increasing capacity in the public health service 'at a level never seen before' to ensure people waiting 'too long on trolleys becomes a thing of the past'

Overcrowding in Irish hospitals is thought to be behind trend of patients quitting emergency departments without treatment  

A preliminary inquest hearing into the death of a Cameroonian woman at Cork University Hospital will open in Cork on Thursday.

A 30-year-old man charged with murder after the fatal shooting of two Dallas hospital employees was on parole and had been given permission to be at the facility for the birth of a child, a Texas prison official has said.

Two employees have been killed in a shooting inside a Dallas hospital where the suspected gunman was shot and wounded by police. The shooting occurred about 11am (7pm UK) inside Methodist Health System, according to hospital spokesperson Ryan Owens.

The business case for the new hospital was delivered to the Department of Health in January but not passed on to the Department of Public Expenditure until September

Proposal includes housing scheme, hospital, and nursing home

Full-scale public inquiry into all aspects of management and funding at UL Hospitals Group must take place

The hospitals in the three cities are a key part of a new Sláintecare strategy to address outpatient procedures and surgical waiting lists

Alan Toal claims he was given no explanation for his barring from the private  Hospital in Dublin

Hospital chairman sounds cautionary note about Cross Border Directive procedures as St John's Hospital unveils five-year plan 

An eating disorder service due to open last December is now not expected to take in its first admissions until the second quarter of next year.

As of last night, there were 54 patients in the Tralee hospital which serves the Kerry/West Limerick and North Cork region along with five suspected cases

Why is Hiqa bothering to continue with surprise visits when the level of results is uniformly and consistently unsatisfactory?

A scathing Hiqa report has shone a light on the series of failures at University Hospital Limerick, including lengthy waits for treatment and overcrowding

The clinical director of Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan has said that critically ill patients in Co Meath “are not provided with the best opportunity of survival” at the hospital.

The location of the new facility will be revealed soon, though it is expected to be in Glanmire

The Minister for Health has been called in to address a number of concerns raised in relation to the proposed maternity facility on the site of St Vincent’s Hospital

Tatenda Mukwata lived at the Atlantic Lodge direct provision centre in Kenmare and had recently been granted permission to stay in Ireland

HSE say the spending was necessary in the pandemic but the country's main nursing union says it was only necessary because of the failure to adequately staff frontline services

Midwifery-led maternity services at the Lagan Valley hospital in Co Antrim are to be temporarily stopped

The woman, a pedestrian aged in her late 50s, was taken to University Hospital Limerick for treatment

Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomising the horror of the attack

A platoon representing every corps and every barracks in the Defence Forces will compete in the Great Limerick Run half marathon in full uniform

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has undergone a series of medical examinations in a Milan hospital, a spokesman has confirmed.

ASTI call comes as ministers concede privately that Nphet advice on close contacts is 'disproportionate and unfeasible'

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden brought some Christmas Eve cheer to hospitalised children who are not well enough to go home for the holidays.

The taxi driver who survived the Liverpool Women’s Hospital blast only realised that his passenger was wearing a bomb vest when he saw “a little red light”, a witness has said.

The bomb used in the Liverpool Remembrance Sunday attack was a homemade explosive with ball bearings attached to it and could have caused “significant injury or death”, police have said.

Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is taking legal action over a tweet posted that appeared to be mocking the Liverpool terrorist attack.

A security guard who helped the taxi driver involved in the explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital has said he called out for his wife moments after the attack.

The boy had to have X-rays, an ECG, echocardiogram, and CT pulmonary angiography as medics tried to locate the missing piece

A suspected terrorist who blew himself up with a homemade bomb outside a hospital for women and babies has been named as Emad Al Swealmeen

Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, from Counter-Terrorism Policing North West, said the man who died in the blast brought a homemade bomb with him into a taxi and asked to be taken to the hospital

The driver, named locally as David Perry, was injured at the scene and remains in hospital in a stable condition

Nurse Anna is based on Valerie's own daughter who is a children's nurse who had Hodgkin's Lymphoma last year

First port of call for those not in need of emergency care should be GP or SouthDoc

The Acute Hospital Waiting List Plan is aimed at mitigating the impact of the pandemic and the cyberattack on scheduled care activity

Significant investment in medical manpower, general practice, and mental health service is also needed

Police are investigating four deaths at the flagship Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QUEH) in Glasgow, it has emerged.

Since the screening of the first episode of The Rotunda there has been a tsunami of outpouring from parents and parents-to-be

Patients and staff have been evacuated from Trafford General Hospital following a lightning strike. Firefighters are tackling a blaze on the roof of a building at the hospital in Greater Manchester.

Fifty vacancies at Midland Regional Hospital could 'compromise' patient safety and care, warned protesters