The Department of Health has announced that a person in the east of the country has passed away.

Jack Downey began to feel unwell at the festival on August 2 at around 4.30pm.

“You can cope with sporadic cases but if there is a large number we will struggle to cope and probably won't,” said Dr Rory Dwyer, clinical lead of the Irish National Intensive Care Unit Audit.

His wife Mary and daughters, Sinéad and Meadhbh, provided an update on his health at the Laois-Offaly election count in recent days.

Paddy Hansard, 73, suffered serious head injuries and broken bones in his neck due to a horrific attack which took place at around 2.30am on August 17, at the Courtney Place flat complex in Ballybough, Dublin.

A mother has urged the public to learn first aid after her two-year-old son nearly choked on peanuts on a family break in Kerry.

Jack Downey, 19, of Ard Caoin in Clonmel passed away last Monday having been rushed to Cork University Hospital three days earlier after he fell ill.

The lives of critically ill patients are being put at risk as hospitals have less than half of the intensive care consultants needed.

Liam O’Gradaigh has battled along with his wife Sheena to keep their son Donagh, who is now aged 11, alive.

A 13-month-old boy whose parents were unduly influenced by anti-vaccine information on social media ended up in intensive care at University Hospital Galway (UHG) with a preventable illness.

Back-to-back All-Ireland Ladies Football winner Noelle Healy has hit out at Taoiseach Leo Varadkar for his controversial comments about medical staff.

A coroner has warned drug mules that they are playing “Russian roulette” after a 24-year-old Brazilian man suffered a painful death when one of more than 100 pellets of cocaine he had ingested burst on a flight from Lisbon to Dublin.

Age segregation, unfortunately, applies to all age groups. Things aren’t necessarily better when it comes to the less young and the less old, writes Clodagh Finn.

Professor George Shorten will be running the Cork City Marathon for a cause close to his heart.

Former England hooker Brian Moore has announced he is recovering in hospital after suffering a heart attack.

The uncle of 18-year-old Kym Owens has described how her family’s life “has come to a standstill” following the vicious assault, which has left her in an induced coma since November.