Another resident has died at a nursing home at the centre of a deadly influenza outbreak.

THE Mosney Village in Co Meath, run by husband and wife, Phelim and Elizabeth McCloskey, more than doubled their pre-tax profits last year.

THE Competition Authority has published its notice in respect of Collective Action in the Community Pharmacy Sector.

THE Competition Authority has published its notice in respect of Collective Action in the Community Pharmacy Sector.

ONE of the few straws of comfort many of us reached for when the obscenities revealed in Judge Seán Ryan’s society-defining report was that the atrocities were firmly rooted in the past.

NURSES at Sligo General Hospital held a day-long strike yesterday over job cutbacks and the non-renewal of temporary contracts for 19 nurses.

The British government has “carelessly” overpaid hundreds of millions of pounds to the Health Services Executive, it was claimed today.

WHETHER the four senior Catholic churchmen who yesterday publicly supported the embattled Bishop of Cloyne would have done so if they had been aware of allegations made public just last evening is questionable.

THAT hackneyed, black-humour warning seen on car stickers — “Be nice to your children, after all they will choose your nursing home” — has taken on a macabre relevance.

The prevention, treatment and care of cancer will come under the spotlight at a major health conference in Dublin today.

Clare Local Authorities and the Health Service Executive today reminded water consumers in the Ennis area to continue to observe the partial boil notice, which is in place.

A RESEARCH group at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) and the Health Services Executive (HSE) have warned the public not to be duped by a bogus fundraiser who is contacting people by phone and urging them to buy raffle tickets to help fight blindness.

CIVIL marriages can be conducted at a whole range of new venues because of the enactment of the Civil Registration Act 2007.

A 10-YEAR-OLD girl from Co Kildare is fighting for her life in Cork University Hospital after she lost control of her bicycle and collided with a wall.

Two investigations were under way today after a fire broke out at the Health Services Executive’s headquarters in Cork.

AN BORD Pleanála has cleared the way for a major revamp of Cork’s Musgrave Park stadium.

A 17-year old girl who is four months pregnant with a foetus suffering from a condition which means a major part of its brain is absent has brought a High Court case seeking to challenge directions by the HSE stopping her travelling outside the State for an abortion.

THE man who helped identify the victims of British serial killer Fred West by their teeth as well as the victims of the devastating Asian Tsunami will be one of the main speakers at the Irish Dental Association’s (IDA) annual conference which begins in Cork today.

AN Oireachtas inquiry should be set up urgently to establish how Galway’s water supply was allowed to become contaminated by a harmful parasite, it was argued yesterday.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney has insisted the Government’s plan to co-locate eight private hospitals on the grounds of public hospitals is proceeding as planned.

MENINGITIS claimed the life of a 17-month-old Kerrykeel girl at the weekend.

A TOTAL ban on visitors at two hospitals in Cork and one in Kerry, because of the winter vomiting bug, is continuing, the Health Services Executive (HSE) confirmed yesterday.

VISITING restrictions remained in place at Cork University Hospital yesterday, 21 days after they were first introduced because of the winter vomiting bug.

A MEMBER of the Health Services Executive (South) walked out of a meeting yesterday in protest and a number of others threatened to resign after claiming officials weren’t giving them proper answers to their questions and were not allowing time for debate.

MORE than one-in-three Irish children may be suffering from behavioural and emotional problems, a major new health survey has discovered.

THE Oireachtas Committee on Health will be writing to the head of the Health Services Executive (HSE), Professor Brendan Drumm, asking him to explain apparent delays in appointing four consultant neurologists.

Heroin addicts in Cork will no longer have to travel to Dublin for their methadone treatment.

MORE people have GP-only medical cards in Cork city and county than in Dublin, Fine Gael claimed yesterday.

YOU might not realise it, but every time you take the plunge in most of the swimming pools in the country, or plonk yourself in one of those spas, you are taking your life in your hands, and it’s not necessarily through drowning.

THE extraordinary delays in investigating complaints of child abuse, up to 60% outstanding, must give rise to concern that inefficiency in some Health Services Executive (HSE) areas is contributing to that abuse.

JUNIOR doctors are seeking an overall pay increase of 20%, claiming their earnings will drop by up to one-third when European Union legislation banning their long working hours is fully introduced and their traditional overtime earnings cut.

The state’s bill for medicines is to be cut by €300m thanks to an agreement between the Health Services Executive and pharmacists, it was revealed today.

IT is a matter of serious concern that some of the preliminary findings into the untimely and premature death of Patrick Walsh, because of serious process failures at several levels, were made public before his family was apprised of its contents.

AFTER a three-year absence, helicopters will be able to land near the country’s only level-one trauma hospital, it was confirmed yesterday.

DURING an address yesterday to the annual meeting of Age Action Ireland Brendan Drumm, chief executive of the Health Services Executive (HSE), announced plans to appoint 30 elder abuse officers to tackle the abuse of elderly people.

The Government has decided that the new national children’s hospital will be located in the Mater Hospital.

Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal Noel Ahern has today approved the €2.1m acquisition of an Ennis Town Centre property for transitional housing for the homeless.

Health service bosses are examining ways to cut spending in the North East of the country by up to €10m in a bid to come in under budget for the year, it emerged today.

The number of public health nurses working in the Dublin area has dropped despite a rise in births and an increasing elderly population, it emerged today.

THE parents of a dead child, whose tissue samples were retained in a hospital for 29 years and her brain incinerated without their consent, criticised the health authorities yesterday for not answering their questions about her death.

AN Bord Pleanála confirmed yesterday that it has received objections to two so-called ‘green projects’ in Co Cork.

Health service bosses are considering an offer from a private development consortium to build a new National Children’s Hospital on a non-profit basis, it emerged today.

A number of operations carried out at a Co Meath hospital are to be reviewed after concerns were raised, it was confirmed today.

CHILD welfare groups yesterday called for new regulations to be implemented to tackle problems in sub-standard crèches.