A senior clinical psychologist who highlighted the death of an elderly patient at the Leas Cross nursing home said today he felt vindicated by the subsequent expert report.

A psychologist said today he was targeted maliciously after he raised concerns about the transfer of a patient who later died at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Dublin.

Irish haemophiliacs have been told that they are not at risk of contracting the human form of mad cows disease from blood products here.

HOMOPHOBIA in Ireland? Regretfully, we have a long, long way to go, as indicated by Niall Murray's article (Irish Examiner, February 20).

THE North Eastern Health Board has denied women’s lives are at risk because of delays in supplying blood products at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth.

A BITTER war of words erupted yesterday between the Government and the Blood Bank over the handling of the State’s blood supply.