An investigation into a fatal plane crash which claimed the lives of a seven-year-old boy and a male pilot almost two years ago, found that a loss of control in a steeply banked turn lead to a rapid loss of altitude, and inevitably their deaths.

The Mental Health Commission has identified two critical and nine areas of high risk non-compliance at centres in Dublin and Laois.

The 40-year-old was in the care of Roscommon Mental Health Services at the time.

There are 487 patients waiting for hospital beds this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Trolley Watch.

There are 388 people waiting for hospital beds across the country this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

A doctor has been suspended from the medical register here for six months for professional misconduct following a finding he told a female patient he wanted to kiss her.

The father and son killed in a horrific crash in Co. Offaly yesterday have been named locally as 29-year-old Vincent Rossi and his five-year-old son Sully.

A man and a young boy have been killed in a road accident in Co. Offaly today.

Immune Thrombocytopenia or ITP affects more than 1,000 Irish people.

The garda watchdog is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of a man after an incident at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.

Five people died on the roads over the bank holiday weekend, bringing the total number of fatalities so far this year to 39.

A man has died following a crash in Co. Westmeath.

Hospitals in the south of the country were still awaiting “the promised staffing and resources” needed to provide abortion a day before the service was introduced.

Last Sunday, soccer referee Daniel Sweeney was attacked after a match in Mullingar. He sustained a broken jaw and fractured eye-socket.

Two hospitals have been found to be non-compliant with the national screening guidelines to protect against the superbug CPE.

Emergency services are at the scene of Sunday afternoon’s crash in Co Offaly.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted he is baffled by the sky-rocketing trolley count crisis after claiming he does not know why the situation is spiralling out of control.

A day in the working life of midwife ultrasonographer Yvonne Young.

A day in the working life of midwife ultrasonographer Yvonne Young.

Health Minister Simon Harris has moved to reassure expectant mothers over the safety of foetal heart monitors in the country’s maternity units following revelations that the HSE has ordered a review over concerns dating back to 2009.

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

Almost half of the children on hospital trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a bed, it has emerged.

More than 2,400 people spent time this week on a trolley or chair waiting for a hospital bed, nurses have said.

A grandmother who was discharged from the Midland Regional Hospital when she allegedly still had a post operative infection died 10 days later at home, the High Court has heard.

Hospitals need to make better use of new technology to reduce clinical errors, according to the health watchdog.

Gardaí are investigating a shooting incident in Athlone last night.

The IFA is seeking more gardaí and patrol cars in rural Ireland in the wake of a weekend attack.

A total of 514 people are waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals this afternoon.

A 20-year-old man is seriously ill in hospital after he was injured in a stabbing in Roscommon Town.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a farm accident in Offaly.

A 22-year-old man has died following a road traffic accident in Portarlington, Co Laois.

A three-year-old boy is in a serious but stable condition after falling from an apartment in Longford town.

The are just over 300 people waiting to be admitted to hospitals around the country today.

A woman who went in to hospital for a routine day procedure but ended up losing eight pints of blood when an artery was torn has been awarded over €855,000 by the High Court, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

Special Correspondent Michael Clifford says that all Portlaoise Hospital needed to get preferential treatment was to have been to be located in the Taoiseach’s constituency.