An environmental study at the site of the proposed new Childrens Hospital at St James's in Dublin found no evidence of a grave, or any significant archeological feature.

The Health Minister James Reilly has said there is plenty of work going on behind the scenes to get the new National Children’s Hospital off the ground.

A medical team has worked through the night to rebuild the bodies of conjoined twins who were successfully separated after a day-long operation in Los Angeles.

Doctors today began a marathon operation in Los Angeles to separate 10-month-old twins born joined from the lower chest to the pelvis.

A member of the former boy-band 5ive has been convicted of assaulting a Dublin man in a pub last December.