"It's definitely not a snake that you want to trifle with."

A 66-year-old woman taking tablets to manage pain accidentally died of an overdose, an inquest heard.

The first of two children's urgent care centres that will open as planned today will provide a safe service despite a shortage of senior doctors, the head Children's Health Ireland insists.

A HSE mental health unit in a Dublin hospital where patients could not access a variety of health services and where communal rooms had a “stark” appearance has been criticised by the Mental Health Commission (MHC).

That is according to new inspection reports published by the Mental Health Commission.

The chairperson of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming has made a call for the establishment of a National Capital Projects Agency, similar to the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA).

Gardaí are investigating after a man was stabbed in Finglas yesterday evening.

Gerald Barry (aged 85) was sitting up in his bed at Marymount Nursing Home in Lucan, Co Dublin when he choked on his toast on May 29, 2017.

The Department of Health says it is working closely with the HSE to ensure the most effective response to the “winter challenges” after it was claimed the country’s already-stretched hospitals face another chaotic winter.

A 34-year-old man died of blood loss due to a nosebleed described by a doctor as ‘torrential’.

A boot containing a foot found on a Dublin beach was identified as that of a man who’d gone missing 10 months earlier.

The founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation said he is “withdrawing gracefully” from his public campaign opposing the location of the new children’s hospital at the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin.

Ministers will reportedly give the final go-ahead for the building of the new national children's hospital tomorrow.

Hospital consultants are resigning at a rate of one or two per month, mainly in frustration at the two-tier pay system, according to the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

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The uncle of 18-year-old Kym Owens has described how her family’s life “has come to a standstill” following the vicious assault, which has left her in an induced coma since November.

It is being reported that Gardaí are investigating three girls in connection with the assault of 18-year-old student Kym Owens.

Gardaí investigating a brutal attack on a college student in County Kildare at the weekend are expected to issue a further appeal for information later.

Patients at a major children’s hospital were at a “high risk” of infection because of poor hygiene, it has emerged.

Three men have been arrested in connection with an assault in Co Meath, which took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Four people have died on Ireland's roads since last night.

Two men have died in separate road accidents in Co Meath and Co Kildare last night.

Lisa Flynn was one of a group of parents who travelled to Dublin yesterday to voice their opposition to the location of the new children’s hospital.

A number of objectors to the children’s hospital being built on Dublin’s St James’s Hospital campus are “thinking very seriously” about seeking a judicial review of the planning decision, it has emerged.

Relocating the Rotunda, lock, stock and babies, from Dublin City centre to Blanchardstown, is Prof Fergal Malone’s ‘number one goal’. But the hospital’s new master isn’t one to shirk a challenge, reports Catherine Shanahan

A number of mental health facilities have failed aspects of recent inspections because of inadequate premises, the use of untrained staff in restraining patients and the admission of children to adult wards.

The maternity hospital is set to relocate to the Connolly Hospital campus in Blanchardstown.

Plans for the new National Children’s Hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin will be “vigorously opposed”, Jack and Jill Foundation founder and chief executive Jonathan Irwin said yesterday.

The numbers awaiting hospital treatment on trolleys in hospitals around the country has soared, representing the worst level of overcrowding for the month of June since records began.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said the recall to hospitals of hundreds of patients following a review of thousands of X-rays was more about quality assurance and control than anything else.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said “dozens of extra beds” will be opened in the coming weeks to deal with hospital overcrowding.

Four adults and three children have been assaulted and tied up in a violent burglary at their home in Dublin.

Members of the public are being asked to join with nurses for tomorrows lunchtime protest outside the Dáil.

The overall number of people waiting on trolleys has dropped slightly since yesterday, but some hospitals have more patients on trolleys today.

A widespread nurses’ strike across the country’s major accident and emergency departments is increasingly likely following a decision to extend a ballot for industrial action to hospitals plagued by emergency department overcrowding.

Dublin senior footballer Jonny Cooper is out of hospital after he was stabbed early this morning.

Dublin senior footballer Jonny Cooper is recovering after being injured in a knife attack in the city in the early hours of this morning.