A raft of legal challenges are anticipated after hospitals and healthcare providers were given three months to stop allowance and top-up payments being made to more than 140 senior managers.

A FORMER master of Dublin’s Holles Street Maternity Hospital has said he has “given up” on politicians’ initiative and imagination.

NOT for the first time, Declan Keane, master of Holles Street maternity hospital in Dublin, has highlighted the amazing statistic (RTÉ radio, September 2) that 20% of current births in Dublin are to non-national mothers.