There were 363 data-protection breaches recorded by the HSE in the first ten months of this year.

Taoiseach criticised over his ‘see no evil’ response to the situation

The HSE spent nearly €7 million on private ambulances in the first eight months of this year.

There is €26m for a winter plan to deal with emergency department overcrowding in acute public hospitals, Simon Harris, the health minister, has confirmed.

The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has hit back at claims he has no plan to deal with “outrageous” levels of patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).

Seven acute hospitals had 30 or more admitted patients waiting for a bed today and the worst-hit hospital was University Hospital Limerick with 76 waiting.

Brendan Porter's mother Maura, aged 70, died after she was struck by a car on her way home from Mass in Carndonagh, Co Donegal in December 2013.

A woman who lived less than a mile from her local hospital died after an ambulance took almost an hour to get to her house.

A heartless con artist is targeting ill people claiming they owe money for hospital tests.

It was the worst ever July for hospital overcrowding, with 9,439 admitted patients waiting for a bed, according to the latest monthly analysis from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Donegal are likely to be without Eoghan Bán Gallagher for Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final group stage clash with Kerry at Croke Park.

Shortly after 5pm on Sunday, gardaí were called to the scene of a collision involving a motorcycle at Kilpadder South, Dromahane, approximately 8km south of Mallow.

Gardaí in Donegal are investigating a serious collision which left two people injured.

The HSE has admitted that containers which stored patients medical files were broken into in Co. Donegal.

A number of other letters and files were also found in separate incidents over a number of weeks.

A driver killed in yesterday’s Donegal International Rally has been named as Fianna Fáil councillor Manus Kelly.

An investigation has been launched after personal medical files were found dumped in a Co Donegal park.

Several ambulances attended the scene where it is believed up to 50 children had taken a reaction to the water.

A hospital has apologised in court for the quality of care given to a man who went in for an angiogram but later had to have his right leg amputated.

This month was the worst October on record for hospital overcrowding with 9,055 admitted patients forced to wait for a bed on trolleys and chairs.

According to the INMO, University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded with 46 people waiting for a bed.

The Ombudsman received more than 3,000 complaints about providers of public services last year, including an increase in complaints about local authorities linked to planning and housing and 115 complaints from asylum seekers.

Gardaí have launched an investigation following the discovery of a young man’s body in Co Donegal.

An estimated 3m medication errors are made in Irish hospitals per year, one mistake per hospital patient per day, according to the health watchdog.

A nurse said a doctor facing allegations of poor professional performance for his treatment of a child who had chicken pox told her he had seen blood-test results, but had failed to write these on a medical chart.

It is the third time the institution has won the accolade.

A man who saved a young girl from a house fire has said it was a blessing he had left his bedroom window open so he could hear the shouts for help.

One of the country’s maternity hospitals has had to apologise after it emerged that a baby’s body was left stored in a room for four weeks, despite the mother being informed that he would be buried one week after his death.

Almost one in seven mothers who gave birth at Cork University Maternity Hospital last year experienced what is classified as a “clinical incident”.

An ambulance transporting a young patient from Donegal to Dublin broke down outside Letterkenny, so another vehicle had to be called to continue the journey.

A garda has survived after his patrol car was rammed following a high-speed pursuit in Co Donegal in the early hours of Friday.