A firefighter who drank up to 15 pints before he knocked down a 27-year-old man walking home from St Stephen's Day celebrations has been jailed for five and a half years.

The victim was found with deep cuts to his head and body in Athy on Saturday.

Plans to expand life-saving stroke treatment at Cork University Hospital (CUH) face a major delay because of difficulties filling a key consultant post.

By now, you have to look a little harder for them under fallen leaves but wild mushrooms are still on the ground and the picking season can continue into November.

The family of a Dublin woman who died by suicide claimed she had effectively become a drug addict from medication she had been prescribed.

Gardaí are appealing for information following a serious assault in Dublin.

Brendan Behan once suggested that “there’s no amount of angst that couldn’t be cured by a ball of ten pound notes”.

There are 388 people waiting for hospital beds across the country this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

On four occasions since April UHL has had 81 patients waiting and last month the hospital had over 1,400 people without beds.

A woman has been airlifted to safety after slipping on steep ground, at Balscadden, on Dublin's Howth Head.

Migraine Awareness Week gets underway today, to increase public knowledge of the condition.

A young man remains in a critical condition in hospital this morning after the attack on Watergate Street in Navan.

Privacy issues at one mental health facility were deemed to be at a critical level by the Mental Health Commission, which noted that due to overcapacity, one patient was not seen by a doctor because the patient had no bed.

A man in his 20s has been arrested in connection with a serious assault which took place in Tallaght over the weekend.

A 42-year-old man is to stand trial accused of racially abusing and attacking a taxi driver in Dublin after a video of the alleged incident went viral online.

Gardaí in Donegal are investigating a serious collision which left two people injured.

A wave of Independents were swept into power in the last general election. The country was in recovery mode.

That is one of the findings of a report by the health watchdog, which carried out an inspection in February of this year.

A couple has taken a legal challenge over a coroner's refusal to await the report of an external review into the care of their 19-year-old daughter at Sligo University Hospital before resuming an inquest into her death.

A man has been killed after he was thrown from his quad bike in Co Donegal.

A woman who suffered a fatal asthma attack on the day Storm Ophelia hit went to her local pharmacy for an inhaler but it was closed.

There are 525 patients waiting on beds across the country, according to the latest trolley watch figures.

A man in his 20s has been hospitalised after being shot in the leg in Coolock.