THE country’s dirtiest hospitals are laid bare in a damning report that shows widespread neglect of basic hygiene practices like hand-washing, bin-emptying and general cleaning.

TWO’S company, three’s a crowd but four is a ready-made family.

“IT happened a bit faster than I expected,” said delighted West Cork father Patrick Murphy.

A UNIT of incorrectly labelled blood recalled from a maternity hospital was inadvertently sent to another hospital because of poor quality control at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

SOME raise a glass to Women’s Little Christmas but in the Murphy household in Cork it’s Little Women’s Christmas that prompts the celebrations.

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.

A woman in her 30s has been arrested after she allegedly tried to abduct a newborn baby from a Cork City maternity ward last night.