Suicide charity Pieta House is taking over services previously operated by Console in a deal finalised yesterday to ensure minimum disruption to clients.

The Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said unless long term measures are in place to tackle overcrowding in emergency departments the numbers of patients on trolleys will soar in the New Year.

Two female private investigators who pretended to be HSE and VEC officials were able to blag personal data from other civil servants to help credit unions find members who had defaulted on their loans.

TREATMENT services for heroin addicts face “assassination” under planned HSE cuts, specialist doctors have claimed.

Junior Minister Tom Parlon is due to announce details today of a plan to build a 32-storey residential building close to Heuston Station in Dublin.