They’ve enjoyed romantic dinners, hand-in-hand walks and many special times together during their 43 years of marriage. Now, they can add hip replacements to the list.

A woman has voiced concern for her husband’s health after he was placed on a waiting list for his heart procedure.

Surgery, scheduled for next week, has been cancelled for a schoolgirl whose crippling scoliosis condition forced Minister for Health Simon Harris to admit he was ashamed.

Four men remain in Garda custody following a major operation targeting organised crime groups in Dublin in which a large number of guns were seized yesterday.

51 people have been arrested in the Kilkenny area over the past three days as part of Operation Thor.

Three men will appear in court later after an alleged human-trafficking operation was detected at Dublin Airport.

Conjoined twins in California have become separate toddlers after a 17-hour operation.

Leinster and Ireland flanker Josh van der Flier will miss the PRO12 play-offs as well as Ireland’s summer tour to South Africa, after he was ruled out of action for the next eight weeks.

The Haughey family has slammed claims made in a new book that former taoiseach Charles J Haughey turned down an operation that may have saved his life following a diagnosis of prostate cancer.

WHO gets hernias? Well, Madonna has had one, weightlifters and builders get them, and US wrestler Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson famously tweeted about his in 2013.

A woman who had an operation to remove her gallbladder at Kerry General Hospital was discharged two days later even though she was in severe pain and unable to walk, the High Court was told yesterday.