An audit of nursing staff will be carried out at every hospital ward around the country, in a new plan announced by the Health Minister.

The State pathologist has told a jury that an elderly man who was allegedly poisoned by a nurse died of heart failure that was not related to an injection he received from the accused.

A man whose father’s body was exhumed by gardaí carrying out investigations at a hospital spoke today of the trauma his family had suffered during the past week.

Gardaí investigating the activities of a nurse today exhumed the body of a man in his 70s who died earlier this year.

Gardaí probing the activities of a Naas General Hospital nurse have exhumed the body of an elderly man who had been a patient.