Loci Orthopaedics plans to revolutionise the thumb joint surgery market, writes Trish Dromey.

Two men are dead and two more are fighting for their lives in a Cork hospital amid fears that a lethal batch of high-purity heroin has hit the streets.

The Labour Party is vowing to fight any moves to transfer all acute hospital services in Cork and Kerry to just one facility.

A 36-year-old woman was remanded in custody tonight after being charged in connection with the attempted abduction of a newborn baby in Cork.