Unions against Croke Park II claim the Government is "scaremongering" by claiming that time is running out and it should be accepted.

IT WAS after 10pm on April 11, 1951 when Taoiseach John A Costello made the shock announcement that Health Minister Noel Browne had resigned and President Seán T O’Kelly had accepted the resignation on the recommendation of the Taoiseach.

THE year 1977 was not a great one from the standpoint of the state papers. Historically, the most important events were related to that year’s general election. As the civil servants were not formally involved, the elections were glossed over in the state papers.

MORE than a quarter of Irish prisoners are back in jail within a year of release, and a majority are back in jail within four years, according to a study of 19,995 inmates undertaken over a four-year period up to 2004.

A group of Irish and international non-governmental-organisations say a stand-off between the Mental Health Commission and the Irish Hospital Consultants Association is resulting in a breach of patients' human rights.