Visitor restrictions and some elective surgeries have been cancelled at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan following an outbreak of the contagious bug C-Diff.

FOUR patients are now believed to have died after contracting Clostridium difficile (C diff) in a major acute hospital in Co Louth, it has emerged.

Another two people have died amid a contagious outbreak at one of Ireland’s main regional hospitals, health chiefs said today.

The father of murdered truck driver Paul Quinn today insisted he was more hopeful than ever the killers will be caught as the inquest into his son’s death opened.