Protestors were removed by Gardaí after they blocked the Minister for Health's car as he arrived at University Hospital Limerick to open a new €40m critical care block today.

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A new report has highlighted a number of patient safety risks in the Limerick Hospitals group which it states must be addressed as a priority.

Praveen Halappanavar has thanked a midwife for her honesty in admitting she told his miscarrying wife Savita that her pregnancy could not be terminated because this is a Catholic country.

A consultant has been accused of refusing an Indian woman’s demands for an abortion in Ireland as she miscarried on the grounds that it is “a Catholic country”.

THE grief-stricken uncle of two little brothers who lost their lives following a fire told a requiem Mass heaven now has “two extra angels”.

A man is in hospital with serious burn injuries after being set alight by a gang of youths in Limerick last night.

A Polish man was recovering in hospital today after being stabbed in an apparently random attack.

Two hospitals in the north-east are to lose their emergency departments within months, a leaked report revealed today.

A distraught mother told today she knew something was terribly wrong when her two-year-old daughter woke with the fear of God on her face complaining about a terrible pain in her stomach.

ONE of the most valuable pieces of land in Cork City is set to go on the market shortly, following the announcement that Southern Health Board management is to seek approval to sell off St Kevin’s Hospital in Shanakiel.