STUDENTS beginning 5th Year, who want to study medicine, will return to school next week unaware if they can succeed without getting straight As in the 2008 Leaving Certificate.

THE long overdue plan to more than double the number of medical students represents a significant step towards improving Ireland’s ailing health service.

WATERFORD Regional Hospital’s prowess as one of the best teaching hospitals in the country has received a major boost with funding just announced for a new €4.6 million education unit.

BUSINESS leaders in the Mid-West last night joined the call for a school of medicine at the University of Limerick (UL) amid claims the project was being undermined by “medical politics”.