Latest: Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital, has released a statement.

Galway officials were locked in conclave last night in a bid to resolve the impasse between hurling manager Anthony Cunningham and leading members of his team.

A nurse who taped a patient’s mouth said it was "an act of stupidity" and he would love to be back caring for sick and disabled people again.

The Personal Injuries Assessment Board was established over a decade ago, but is it fully meeting the needs of all claimants? Two experts debate the board’s merits and effectiveness.

The board of Crumlin Children's Hospital has said that no charity donations have been used to pay it's CEO.

As was widely forecast, Jason Ryan has been ratified as the new Kildare senior football manager at last night's County Board meeting at St. Conleth's Park.

Bord Pleanála has granted permission for a company to recycle 45,000 tonnes of scrapped metal annually at a former dockyard in Co Cork.

Maurice Horan has been reappointed as manager of the Limerick senior footballers, receiving a second two-year term with the Shannonsiders.

As the prices of finished beef and summer grazing stock continue to rise around the country, the one question that everyone in the industry is asking is, how long can this trend be maintained?

When Health Minister James Reilly says that it would not be right for him to prejudge anything that might come out of the latest review of the plans for a new National Children’s Hospital, he never said anything truer.

There will be no immediate changes to new whip rules but the situation will be under review, with a report expected by "no later than the end of the week", the British Horseracing Authority said in a statement this evening.

Pat Flanagan will continue as Westmeath senior football manager into the 2012 season, after securing the support of the Westmeath Football Board.

A NEW allegation of abuse in the diocese of Cloyne has been made since the report into past abuses and cover ups was published this week.

The Chairman of the HSE Board Frank Dolphin is not ruling out another redundancy programme in the HSE.

SOME 200 new retail jobs are poised for Cork’s Ballincollig, as supermarket giant Tesco joins a heady and competitive mix in the town that already has two Aldis, two SuperValus, a Lidl — and a large Dunnes Stores.

CONTINENTAL dairy farmer leaders have warned Irish dairy farmers they will end up working twice as hard for the same pay, if they expand milk production.

FÁILTE IRELAND’S commitment to the Irish Open, at least for 2011, means that the country’s flagship golf tournament will go ahead for the second successive year and for the fourth time in all at Killarney on July 28-31 next.

HURLING officials have defied the recession to turn a loss of €100,000 last year into a profit of that amount for 2010.

THE FAI has dismissed fresh claims that the association has been plunged into financial crisis as a result of weaker than expected 10-year ticket sales for the Aviva Stadium.

The North's Chief Constable has condemned an attack on the Policing Board's headquarters in Belfast which could have caused widespread damage.

Armagh's senior footballers are seeking a meeting with the Co board over the delay in appointing a new manager.

'Slumdog Millionaire' child actors Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail and Rubina Rafiq Ali Qureshi may soon leave the slums which won them their fame, it was reported today.

MAKERS of over-the-counter cold remedies are advising against giving them to children under the age of four.

Sweden's Ara Abrahamian has been stripped of his bronze medal in the Greco-Roman wrestling following a meeting of the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board today.

An inquiry into the deaths of a family of four in their Co Wexford home last year will report in September.

A COUPLE who adopted a child in Ethiopia have sought a court order requiring the Irish adoption board to legally register her here.

THE foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey currently poses no threat to the holding of agricultural shows around the country.

THE announcement that gardaí will have to disclose information under the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), once major reforms of the force are bedded down, represents a feather in the cap of Information Commissioner Emily O’Reilly.

THE Pensions Board has called on SSIA holders to address their pension provision with their SSIA savings.

A small plane slammed into a 40-storey apartment building in New York, killing two people in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the pavements and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

The Board of Readymix plc announced today that it has entered into an arms length commercial agreement with CEMEX S.A. for the implementation and ongoing servicing of a proprietary business model and information technology systems.

THE National Implementation Body is expected to make a statement on the long-running battle over redundancy pay for Greencore workers when it meets again tomorrow afternoon.

No employees at Bord Iascaigh Mhara are willing to decentralise to Clonakilty, union leaders claimed today despite plans for a €20m headquarters for the body in the town.

COMPETITORS from six countries will saddle up in a bid for glory at the Irish Horse Board Ballindenisk Horse Trials next weekend.

BOARD members at Cork Airport have been snubbed by the body appointed to investigate the airport’s multi-million euro debt controversy.

DEFENDING champions Kilkenny will have their James Stephens contingent of Eoin Larkin, Jackie Tyrell, Donncha Cody and Eoin McCormack available when they travel to Semple Stadium, Thurles on Sunday.

The presidents of Iran and Syria today consulted on ways to consolidate an old alliance made increasingly crucial as their countries face mounting US pressure and the threat of international sanctions.

The British government and the SDLP clashed tonight over claims the party had failed to submit proposals for state funded neighbourhood justice schemes in Northern Ireland.

THE FAI Board of Management will discuss Brian Kerr’s contract as international manager next week.

BRIAN Corcoran’s Erins Own are considering pulling out of Cork’s SHC quarter-final on Sunday in a bitter row with the County Board over the clash with Newtownshandrum.

YOU speculate about puzzling tourist numbers (Irish Examiner, April 4). I was looking up tourism in Walkinstown library in Dublin.