The husband of an Indian dentist who died following a miscarriage has received hate mail from anti-abortion groups.

The report into the death of Savita Halappanavar says medical staff failed to offer all management options - including a termination.

The report into the death of Savita Halappanavar will be published by the Health Service Executive today.

The hospital where Savita Halappanavar died has admitted there were lapses in its standards of care.

The Health Service has launched a new app for women under thirty-five who are worried about breast pain and tenderness.

GAA President Liam O’Neill has reiterated his belief that spitting is “disgraceful behaviour” after the latest flashpoint in Carrick-on-Shannon.

One of the highest number of enforcement orders in 10 years was dished out to cafes and restaurants last month, new figures have revealed.

There has been a sharp rise this year in whooping cough — a disease that can be fatal in young children.

Test results are due this evening from residents at a private nursing home in Co Donegal where six people died from a respiratory illness in the last 12 days.

THE family of teenager Maedhbh McGivern, who lost out on a liver transplant after a bungled attempt to fly her to a London hospital, has welcomed a state inquiry into the incident but said they do not want a witch hunt.

A FAIRLY routine medical procedure went wrong and I had to go to the Accident and Emergency at Tralee General Hospital last week. I immediately realised the agony that one would have to endure if there were no local hospital.

A FORMER psychiatric nurse who says she was attacked and dragged along a floor by a patient who allegedly should have been in a restraining jacket in Our Lady’s Hospital, Cork, has settled her action for damages in the High Court for a figure understood to be about €140,000.

ONE of the country’s largest care homes for the elderly is operating at a significant loss because of controversial new Government funding arrangements.

Unions are seeking assurances from the Health Service Executive that its redundancy programme will not impact support services to front-line staff.

The HSE is due to meet unions involved with staff at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, Co. Meath, today.

IF yesterday’s very regrettable collapse of talks between the Health Service Executive and IMPACT is an indication precursor of how public sector workers might vote on the Croke Park agreement then we have taken a considerable step along the road to joining Greece in the financial meltdown club.

HALF of newly qualified nurses got a job as a registered nurse within four weeks of graduating, a new study shows.

LAST week the first storm of winter in this part of the world, with the huge gunnera leaves in the garden almost flying off their stalks – they need controlling anyway – and things going bang in the night.

A PRIEST attached to a Dublin parish has stepped down from his duties amid what Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said were child protection concerns.

GARDAÍ and Health Service Executive personnel are trying to find a young mother who abandoned her baby daughter shortly after giving birth at Limerick Regional Hospital.

The country’s top medics tonight launched a withering attack on the Government’s health strategy branding the Health Service Executive cowardly, incompetent and arrogant.

THE long-awaited inquiry into clerical child sex abuse in the Dublin diocese will shock us all, the Archbishop of Dublin admitted yesterday.

GOVERNMENT cutbacks have left the country’s largest volunteer drug project with a crippling €700,000 shortfall in funds and forced it to let staff go in a bid to protect frontline services.

THE system of emergency welfare payments is in danger of collapsing because of record job losses and a lack of staff to process claims, community welfare officers (CWOs) have warned.

DENTURES will be rationed for medical card holders as part of a wave of Health Service Executive (HSE) cutbacks, dentists representatives warned.

CHILD protection campaigners have said they fear bishops will still retain too much discretion over the information they hold about child sex abuse despite promises of new legislation intended to make it easy for them to open their files.

CARDINAL Sean Brady has apologised for causing widespread offence in publicly backing beleaguered Bishop John Magee.

PROTESTERS against the proposed move of all breast cancer services for Cork and Kerry to one site in Cork city have demanded a meeting with cancer chief Professor Tom Keane in a bid to highlight their concerns.

The Dublin Archdiocese has revealed that 120 civil actions have been brought to date against 35 Dublin priests, or priests who have held appointments in the diocese.

The mother of a teenage boy facing prosecution in the Children’s Court today hit out at the Health Service Executive and branded it a “joke” for not helping him.

TALKS aimed at preventing pharmacists from pulling out of community drugs schemes will continue today after a “constructive” session yesterday.

A SMOKE alarm saved an elderly woman from certain death yesterday after fire ripped through her farmhouse.

Foreign children adopted by an Irish parent are entitled to become a citizen even if the family lives outside the state, it was recommended today.

A number of women caught up in the cancer misdiagnosis scandal at Portlaoise Hospital are reportedly planning to sue the Health Service Executive.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney will “robustly” face down her opponents in the Dáil tonight when defending the motion of no confidence arising from her role in the cancer screening crisis.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) will hope that, after three years and two failed attempts, it will finally find a candidate next week for its director of human resources post — which boasts a salary of €170,000.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has been warned it faces a legal minefield if it intervenes in the employment of a person accused of child or elder abuse.

ROBYN BUCKLEY is one of the lucky ones.

A PUB in Cork has been given the maximum fine for allowing patrons to smoke in a substandard smoking room.

The outsourcing of cytology screening which detects cervical cancer will be debated by medical scientists in Dublin today.

Almost two-thirds of people would hide mental problems, an alarming survey revealed today.

A new adult case of TB has been identified at a crèche in Douglas, Cork.