Savita Halappanavar might be alive if Ireland’s maternity services had not failed to implement recommendations after a “disturbingly” similar death in 2007, a report has claimed.

Public hospitals have spent over €3.2m on debt collectors to hunt down failed patient payments in just seven years.

A man in his 80s has been killed in a two-car crash on the N4.

PATIENTS with mental health needs are still not getting proper access to therapeutic services and individual care plans are not being followed though, according to the Mental Health Commission’s latest inspection.

CHILD, elderly and surgical patients are being forced out of hospitals earlier or told to have one-day treatments because almost 2,000 public health service beds have been closed nationwide.

Record numbers of sick people on trolleys and chairs in A&E will lead to an increase in deaths, senior emergency medics warned today.

The number of sick people waiting on trolleys and chairs for a hospital bed fell below 500 today.

Two men in their 30s travelling to the Irish rugby clash in Dublin were among four people killed in a two-car crash today.

EXPECTANT mothers have voted Portiuncula Hospital in Co Galway as providing Ireland’s best maternity service, according to the latest ratings statistics from the online Rate my Hospital service.

A massive €12bn spending package for the Department of Health will make a visible difference to frontline services, it was claimed tonight.