TWO hospitals in the north-east of the country are to their lose their 24-hour emergency departments this year.

In THE midst of the enormous interest in the presidential election in the United States, the Government here made some momentous announcements that were obviously intended to be lost in the glare of the historic international developments.

THE HSE has closed ranks even tighter following the disclosure by a Dáil TD this week that two more misdiagnoses had been confirmed in the northeast where reviews of 6,000 chest X-rays and 70 CT scans are underway.