A Mallow man shouting racial abuse at Polish security staff in the accident and emergency staff at a hospital was jailed for two months yesterday.

HEALTH Minister Leo Varadkar’s plan to take patients on trolleys out of A&E and put them, together with their trolleys, on wards, can be criticised, but medically it would have advantages. 

THE chief executive of the Health Services Executive has said his organisation must find an effective and lasting solution to the A&E problems in the North-East which led to the death of 76-year-old man last week.

ALL accident and emergency patients could be diverted from their local hospital in Drogheda to two alternative units 20 miles away as nurses in the A&E unit protest over staff numbers and working conditions.