Tipperary SHC

Martin Toal had an unexpectedly easy win over Conor McGuigan in the quarter-final of the Ulster senior championship at Port Mór-Blackwatertown.

Inniscarra 4-7 Macroom 2-10

Whitechurch 5-5 Inch 2-4

Women given an epidural during labour are frequently not warned of the more serious risks, such as paralysis, associated with the anaesthetic, according to a new survey.

A journalist who claimed he was made redundant from a local radio station because of his coverage of the Corrib gas controversy in north Mayo has been awarded €47,000 compensation by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Toomevara swooped late for two injury time goals for a 3-21 to 1-26 win over Kilruane MacDonaghs in a high scoring thriller in this Tipperary SHC second round game at Nenagh on Saturday.

The Minister for Health James Reilly has said no acute hospital will close as a result of the reorganisation of hospitals.

Over 5,600 patients in Limerick are waiting four years or more for an outpatient appointment to see a doctor, figures from the HSE show.

Ballincollig 2-10 Douglas 1-07

Doctors failing to file private insurance paperwork on time costs taxpayers €61m a year.

A 52-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital following an alleged assault in Ennis, Co Clare.

Nearly 60% of the 9,800 people waiting four years or more for an outpatient hospital consultant appointment are based in Limerick.

Mums and dads across the country have been welcoming the first babies of 2013.

Families all over the country are making room for all the new gifts they took delivery of today, but none will be happier than those who welcomed new babies into the world.

Vincent Kiely beat John Cahalane in the last shot in the opening round of the Jerry Desmond Cup at Sam’s Cross on Saturday.

A Mid West nurses’ leader has slammed as “sexist and insulting” a HSE document setting out a proposed dress code for nurses and other female staff at five hospitals in the region.

Tipperary senior champions Drom & Inch remain on course to retain the Dan Breen Cup following an impressive 2-22 to 0-13 quarter-final win over west champions Clonoulty Rossmore at Semple Stadium.

Blarney 1-15 Cloughduv 0-11

Liam Sheedy, Eamonn O’Shea and Nicky English are among the leading names linked with the Tipperary manager’s position vacated by Declan Ryan on Saturday.

A retired Limerick man has died from legionnaires’ disease which he caught when he and his wife went for a meal in a hotel in Chicago during a visit to the US last month.

A volunteer cancer patient transport service is to be introduced at two Cork hospitals within months.

A complete ban on smoking in hospitals and on adjoining grounds in the Mid-West comes into force this Thursday.

FOR the third time in seven years, De La Salle (Macroom) will participate in the marquee day in Munster Colleges football after staving off Coláiste Chríost Rí in an absorbing Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final in Cloughduv on Saturday.

Last Sunday in the Clonmel Sportsfield there was a strong De La Salle Macroom theme to Cork’s McGrath Cup success. Wing-back Sean Kiely and wing-forwards Liam Shorten and Fintan Goold are all past pupils of the school who have graduated onto the inter-county scene.

The office of the Garda Ombudsman is investigating a road crash involving a Garda jeep and a car, which occurred at the weekend, on the same stretch of road where a garda and fireman were tragically killed four years ago.

The Minister for Health has announced that new management arrangements are to be put in place for two groups of hospitals in the West and Mid West.

FOR a few seconds the crowd erupted — the sight of Seamus Moynihan taking to the Fitzgerald Stadium turf united all Kerry club supporters.

FOR a few seconds the crowd erupted — the sight of Seamus Moynihan taking to the Fitzgerald Stadium turf united all Kerry club supporters.

HAVING spent time in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital recently, including 24 hours in A&E, and having experienced first hand the atrocious conditions in which nurses and staff are forced to work, I wish to say that I fully support them in their efforts to have the recruitment embargo rescinded and beds freed up.

THE country’s largest nursing union has said it is not ruling out industrial action over the closure of 25 beds at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, which has now gone ahead.

TRADE and Development Minister Jan O’Sullivan has asked Health Minister James Reilly to get the HSE to rearrange its budget to retain 25 beds at the Limerick’s main hospital that are due to be taken out of use this week.

THE Government may have to lift its public sector recruitment ban if the crisis facing emergency department & services in the Mid-West is to be averted, junior minister Jan O’Sullivan has warned.

THERE’S a mystery about the closure of Accident and Emergency services at Roscommon General Hospital.

Gardaí in Clare are investigating a stabbing incident in which five men were injured in the early hours of this morning.

THE Emergency Department & and absenteeism at Limerick’s regional hospital continue to cause problems at the mid-west’s largest hospital.

Three people have been arrested after a man in his 60s was stabbed in Limerick last night.

The man who died in west Limerick yesterday has this afternoon been named.

For the once hurling-centric Éire Óg club, Sunday’s football finals – and the appearance of Daniel Goulding, Ciaran Sheehan and exciting minor Kevin Hallissey – offer a global platform to the strides the club has made with the big ball. Fintan O’Toole visited the Ovens-based club

A FEMALE security guard at Shannon Airport died from a brain haemorrhage just weeks after she was sent home from the Mid-Western Regional Hospital where she was wrongly diagnosed as suffering from migraine, an inquest in Limerick heard.

A TEENAGER was arrested by Askeaton gardaí yesterday who are investigating a series of road incidents which resulted in a crash involving a delivery lorry.

BUSINESSMAN Denis Brosnan is to remain as chairman of the Mid-West Task Force.

FORMER Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan yesterday accused Tánaiste Mary Coughlan of speaking “a load of guff” on the Mid-West Task Force.

TWO late points by Tony Dineen and Stephen Down gave DLS Macroom victory in this entertaining Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final at Rathmore yesterday.