The former director of nursing at Leas Cross Nursing Home has been struck off the nursing register.

THREE nurses have been barred from the profession for reasons including assaulting a nursing home patient, the unauthorised use of medicine and the failure to properly monitor a patient in their care following recent decisions of the nursing board, An Bord Altranais.

A NURSE who took methadone from a patient for her own use has been censured for professional misconduct by An Bord Altranais.

RELATIVES of former residents of the notorious Leas Cross nursing home will meet Health Minister Mary Harney for the first time today.

A nurse allegedly poisoned two elderly men in Naas General Hospital three years ago after using excessive force to administer unprescribed drugs to them, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been told.

The statutory body that regulates the nursing profession in Ireland is seeking funding of more than €16m to buy new offices.

A damning report into the practices of disgraced doctor Michael Neary tonight described the number of hysterectomies performed at a Co Louth hospital as truly shocking.

A meeting of An Bórd Altranais is due to take place following the suspension of a nurse from Naas General Hospital who is the subject of a Garda inquiry.