Ambulances were being diverted from the Accident and Emergency department at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar this evening amid what nurses' representatives called "unsafe" levels of overcrowding.

The Irish Nurses Organisation says overcrowding is crippling the Accident and Emergency department at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital this morning.

The new Accident and Emergency Department at Mercy University Hospital in Cork has finally been opened after being dogged by controversy.

Tourism chiefs and political leaders today rounded on pranksters behind a bogus advertisement ridiculing Limerick as a polluted, lawless and trigger-happy backwater.

A mother-of-eight died from head injuries three-weeks after she was run over as she walked across a pedestrian crossing in Spain, an inquest heard today.

The Accident and Emergency department at Cork University Hospital is back up and running again today.

A man who spent five days lying on a hospital trolley today accused the Government of neglecting the health service.

Nurses at Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, Co Meath have started a work-to-rule in pursuit of clerical cover for the Accident and Emergency Department.