The Mercy University Hospital (MUH) has defended its treatment of junior doctors after the Medical Council raised concerns that trainees are being disrespected and belittled by other staff.

Trainee doctors barely out of medical school are being asked to perform duties above their grade, are subject to bullying and inadequate supervision, and given poor feedback about their progress, according to a series of Medical Council reports on clinical training in nine hospitals.

Plans for a new cancer-care centre in Cork City have been put on hold following objections from the owners of properties adjoining the proposed development.

Founder of the hugely successful Mercy Recycling Campaign, Denis O’Donovan, has been named as December’s ‘Cork Person of the Month’ winner.

Munster rugby player Billy Holland and barber Tom Winters officially launched The Mercy Hospital Foundation’s Decembeard campaign today.

The unsuitability of the acute mental health unit at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) for dementia patients and the need for an acute hospital on Cork City’s northside were among issues raised at the launch of a series of healthcare documents by Sinn Féin.

Designed to ease patient anxiety and deliver significant improvements in the quality of the images produced, the new €2.5m CT suite at the Mercy University Hospital is a perfect blend of the comfortable and the clinical.

It’s where she examined her first cases of piles, boils, warts, and haemorrhoids. And yesterday Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies presenter, Dr Pixie McKenna, was back in the Irish hospital where she trained to back its ambitious €3m fundraising drive.

You can relax — Channel 4 has no plans yet to bring its Embarrassing Bodies cameras to Ireland.

A young boy suffered devastating head injuries when he was thrown from a horse after it was spooked and bitten by dogs, an inquest has heard.