DESPITE the opposition of its own planning inspector and well-founded opposition from local residents, medical consultants, councillors, opposition TDs and Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin, Bord Pleanála has given the Beacon Medical Group (BMG) permission to build their colocated hospital in the grounds of Cork University Hospital.

AN Bord Pleanála is under fire for giving the green light for a private hospital next to Cork University Hospital (CUH) against the advice of one of its own inspectors.

PLANNING permission was granted yesterday for a co-located private hospital on the grounds of the Mid-West Regional Hospital in Limerick.

Planning permission has been granted for a 183-bed co-located hospital on grounds leased from Mid-West Regional Hospital in Limerick, private healthcare company Beacon Medical Group (BMG) announced today.

THE company due to build a €297 million co-located hospital in Cork yesterday said the project would go ahead despite a senior staff pay review and the sacking of six head office staff.

THE Government’s hospital co-location policy was slated at a public hearing yesterday by a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

CONSULTANTS at Cork University Hospital (CUH) united yesterday to back controversial plans for a private co-located hospital on the CUH campus.

A PRIVATE hospital on the grounds of Ireland’s largest publicly owned hospital campus is not sustainable, groups fighting the controversial project told a public hearing yesterday.

PLANS to locate a private hospital on the grounds of Cork University Hospital (CUH) have been described as dangerous and deluded by the former president of the Irish Medical Organisation, Dr Christine O’Malley.

PLANS for one of the state’s biggest co-located hospitals suffered a setback last night.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork were approved last night.

ONE of the country’s most experienced and respected consultants spoke out last night about the importance of securing a co-location facility at Cork University Hospital.

SENIOR medics and management at two leading acute hospitals have united in their opposition to proposals for a new private co-located hospital at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

THE consortium behind controversial plans for a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork will try to ease local concerns at a public meeting today.

CONSULTANTS based at Cork University Hospital have asked Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin to change his position and support plans for a €250m co-location hospital on their campus.

THE consortium behind a controversial €250 million co-location hospital in Cork has mounted a “charm offensive” to ease local concerns.

EYEBROWS were raised earlier this week when Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s top man in Cork described a key project in the State’s co-location policy as “not sustainable”.

PLANS to build one of the country’s first co-located hospitals on a crowded medical complex in Cork are facing stiff opposition.

R&B superstar Beyonce Knowles has sparked reports she is planning a move to boyfriend Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter's Def Jam label, so that he can help to "oversee" her career.

STRUGGLING music company EMI has confirmed that it received a fresh takeover approach from US rival Warner Music.

Shares in EMI rose 2% today following a report that the music group is expected to shun a private-equity bid worth £2.5bn (€3.7bn).

Record label BMG have rubbished claims they will drop troubled British singer George Michael after his arrest last week.

Record label BMG have rubbished claims they will drop troubled singer George Michael after his arrest last week.

Shares in music giant EMI tumbled today after a European court ruling cast doubt over a possible trans-Atlantic merger with US rival Warner.

An EU court in Brussels today overturned the European Commission’s approval of a merger between the music units of media giants Sony and Bertelsmann AG that created the world’s second-largest record label.

A SECOND private bid is being made for the construction of a national children’s hospital on a non-profit basis on the western outskirts of Dublin by a development consortium.

African-American civil rights icon Rosa Parks has died. She was 92.

Saturday night talent show, The X-Factor, returned to television screens last night with more contestants hoping to sing their way to stardom.

THE woman who dreamed up the Abba musical Mamma Mia! has shot into a British-based rich list of music millionaires.

Britney Spears has angered bosses at a British radio station after pulling out of a scheduled appearance "without any real reason".

X Factor runners-up G4 have signed a £1m (€1.4m) record deal following a bidding war for the classical group.

One of Britain's leading art galleries has been attacked by critics for hosting an exhibition of pictures of Britney Spears.

Pop superstar Madonna is planning a duet with African jazz singer Cesaria Evora.

Music mogul Simon Cowell has hit out at a British tabloid expose that claimed he twice cheated on girlfriend Terri Seymour at a Playboy party - insisting he was set up.

Sony and BMG, the music unit of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, said today they had completed the merging of their music businesses.

British pop star Gareth Gates' record label has rubbished reports it has dropped the singer and confirms he is currently in the studio working on new material.

The European Union has approved the merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann AG’s BMG unit in a deal that gives the four “majors” control of about 80% of the world music market, Bertelsmann said last night.

The European Union has approved the merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann AG’s BMG unit in a deal that gives the four “majors” control of about 80% of the world music market, Bertelsmann said tonight.

The European Union’s competition chief has approved a merger between Sony Music and BMG after deciding it did not have enough evidence of potential harm to consumers to block the deal, sources familiar with the case said tonight.

The Beckhams' private lives may be under pressure but their finances are rosier than ever, The Sunday Times Rich List has shown.

Germany's Bertelsmann has said it plans to merge its BMG music business with Japan's Sony in a 50-50 joint venture. The deal is said to be based on a 50-50 valuation of the two assets, and there will be no cash payment.

Microsoft announced a deal with Europe's biggest digital music outfit, OD2, to form the continent's first major a la carte online download service.

AOL Time Warner declined to comment on a report that it was close to agreeing terms of a merger between Warner Music and Germany's BMG.

Mm02 is to trial the world’s first ‘music over mobile’ service using existing mobile data (GPRS or 2.5G) networks.