Independent TD Joan Collins told gardaí she had a right to protest and would not move when asked to let a water meter installation crew in Dublin do their work, a court has heard.

Football Association board member Heather Rabbatts has expressed her “sadness and anger” at news of Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro’s departure from the club.

Twenty-seven registered doctors in Northern Ireland have a criminal record.

Cosmetic procedure patients should be given a cooling-off period before going under the knife for treatment, according to new guidance from the UK's General Medical Council (GMC).

Irish Water has confirmed that it has suspended the installation of water meters in parts of Donegal after what the utility described as “targeted aggression” towards staff installing the devices.

Four water charges protes-ters were yesterday freed from jail by the president of the High Court after he upheld their claims that they were unlawfully detained in Mountjoy Prison under a committal warrant that contained a number of errors.

Five water meter protesters have been given prison sentences by the High Court for breaching an order restraining them from coming within a 20m exclusion zone surrounding installation works.

The Minister for the Environment has denied that the water metering programme has been scaled back, saying it is ahead of schedule.

Sinn Féin is claiming that the company currently installing water metres in Dublin has told its contractors that work will stop at the end of this week.

The High Court has reserved judgment in the case of seven water charge protesters facing jail or a fine if found to be in contempt of court regarding the obstruction of water meter installation.

I attended the Right2Water public meeting in the Silver Springs Moran Hotel, in Cork, to see the Detroit Water Brigade and hear what Brendan Ogle had to say. 

Al-Zayyat guilty of professional misconduct, says medical council

Four anti water charges protesters are potentially facing prison or fines for allegedly entering an exclusion zone around meters being installed in Dublin.

The High Court has granted an order setting up a 20m exclusion zone around water meter installations in Dublin city.

Contempt proceedings against people over protests about the installation of water meters have been adjourned to November 5 by the High Court.

Anti-water charge protesters in North Dublin could be heading to jail.

The Health and Safety Authority is investigating an incident in which a man was hit by a digger at the site of an anti-water charges protest.

Britain's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written to the British Government’s senior law officer for “urgent clarification” why two doctors accused of arranging abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby will not face prosecution.

The estimated €500 cost of installing a water meter in each household is expected to be passed on to consumers in the form of a standing charge on their water bills.

Meet the hip-hop kids who’ve got Christmas all rapped up.

One of the doctors struck off over the MMR jab controversy in the UK asked the High Court today to rule his treatment “unfair and unjust”.

A GP in the UK who failed to spot Baby P’s abuse can return to work as a doctor but only under strict conditions, the General Medical Council ruled today.

A GP who failed to spot Baby P’s abuse is not fully fit to resume practising as a doctor, the General Medical Council ruled today.

A doctor accused of failing to spot Tottenham youngster Baby P's abuse days before his death is seeking to have her name removed from the medical register, a disciplinary panel has heard.

THE doctor who was flying into a Co Cork clinic to provide an unproven three-hour €19,000 stem cell treatment involving animal parts to multiple sclerosis (MS) patients has been struck off the British Medical Register.

Tens of thousands of fans are set to turn out in Cork city this evening for the return of their victorious football team.

AN IRISH Medical Council (IMC) fitness to practice committee has decided to remove a radiologist from the doctors’ register for failing to co-operate with an inquiry into the quality of her work in Britain.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the ’Bloodgate’ scandal is free to return to medicine and hopes to put an 18-month “nightmare” behind her.

A disciplinary panel today will consider today whether to issue a warning to the match-day doctor at the centre of the ’Bloodgate’ fake injury scandal.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fake rugby injury scandal was told today she can practice medicine again.

DEPRESSION clouded the judgment of the Bloodgate matchday doctor who cut the lip of a rugby player to cover up his bogus injury, a panel heard yesterday.

Depression clouded the judgment of the “Bloodgate” matchday doctor who cut the lip of a rugby player to cover up his bogus injury, a panel heard today.

THE doctor at the centre of the Bloodgate controversy has admitted she may find it difficult to return to medicine, as her name would forever be associated with her part in the scandal.

The matchday doctor at the centre of the 'Bloodgate' saga did not act in the best interests of the rugby player she cut to cover up a bogus injury, a disciplinary panel said today.

LEINSTER’S match-day doctor Professor Arthur Tanner believes the Bloodgate scandal would not have happened if he had been allowed to inspect the bogus mouth injury of Harlequins wing Tom Williams.

A leading surgeon said today “Bloodgate” would not have happened if he had been allowed to inspect the bogus mouth injury of a rugby player.

THE matchday rugby doctor at the centre of the ‘Bloodgate’ fake injury scandal said yesterday she was “ashamed” of her role in the event.

The matchday rugby doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fake injury scandal said today she was “ashamed” of her role in the event.

The doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” scandal will today give her account of events to a disciplinary panel.

A doctor at the centre of the “Bloodgate” fabricated rugby injury scandal will face a medical disciplinary hearing today.

The doctor at the centre of the Harlequins ’Bloodgate’ scandal has been summoned to appear before a General Medical Council misconduct hearing in Manchester on August 23.

A police riot squad officer was told today he will not be prosecuted over the death of Ian Tomlinson during G20 protests.