The HSE is being asked to guarantee that a ward closure in a community hospital in north Cork will be temporary and not permanent, as some county councillors fear.

A machine which can significantly reduce the presence of MRSA and the winter vomiting bug has been installed in a Cork hospital.

Over 1,000 people gathered in Castletownbere this afternoon to protest against cutbacks at Bantry General Hospital.

TWENTY-FOUR coffins are to be paraded outside the Dáil to highlight the number of people who will needlessly lose their lives each year if a west Cork hospital has its A&E services downgraded.

SOMETIMES TDs claim they lose their hair trying to ensuring adequate funding for local projects.