The chief executive designate of Cork City Council is poised to have her appointment rubber-stamped on Monday.

Cork’s city councillors took the unprecedented decision last night to defer the appointment of the city’s new chief executive.

History will be made when, for the first time, two women are appointed as bosses of local authorities in Cork and Kerry.

Hospitals in Munster were €39.81m in the red by the halfway point this year, with none able to stay within budget just months after a €48.94m cut to their funds.

Hospitals need to tighten their budgets, but at what cost, asks Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

Private security in six HSE hospitals cost over €2m in 2010 and almost €900,000 for the first six months of 2011.

PROFESSOR Richard Greene, clinical director of the Cork University Hospital Group, said while he accepts criticism in relation to the slow pace of change in reforming services at Mallow General Hospital, the kind of change envisaged could not be achieved overnight.

Catherine Shanahan says the HSE was as surprised as anyone by move to investigate Cork hospital

Dozens of mothers and babies were today moved into the country’s newest maternity hospital after the resolution of an industrial dispute.

LIKE the expectant mother who fails to meet her due-date, the country’s newest maternity hospital failed to deliver on time.

HIP surgery patients face a delay of three years just to get onto a waiting list for treatment at one of the country’s largest hospitals, where consultants are dealing with a work-load three times the recommended level.

Four Cork hospitals have now been hit with the winter vomiting bug, it emerged tonight.

THE Government has been accused of “starving Mallow General Hospital of adequate funding”, according to volunteers helping to support the facility financially.