AN investigation has been launched after patient documents from a hospital in Sligo were found dumped in a bog in Co Galway.

GARDAÍ were last night hoping to question a man in connection with the murder of a Brazilian mother in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

A Brazilian woman stabbed to death in a frenzied attack was planning to bring her children to Ireland to start a new life together, it emerged tonight.

A SCHOOLGIRL and her little brother died in a crash yesterday — the last victims in what was among the most deadly Februarys on our roads in recent years.

HUNDREDS of Dell workers, many in tears, yesterday queued to sign a book of condolence at the Limerick plant for two work colleagues who died in a car crash when travelling to Saturday’s rugby international at Croke Park.

AS GARDAÍ appealed for witnesses to two car crashes, one of which left a nine-month-old baby girl with serious injuries, three of the seven people killed in a horrific weekend of smashes were named yesterday.

A special breast cancer clinic reopens tonight for women affected by the Midlands Regional Hospital scandal.

The discovery of two more misdiagnoses among the more than 3,000 mammograms re-examined at the Midlands Hospital in Portlaoise highlights the importance of the new National Cancer Control Programme.

The Irish Cancer Society is urging the Health Service Executive to put transport provisions in place for women from the midlands who will need to travel to Dublin for breast cancer services.

The breast-cancer screening centre at the Midlands Hospital in Mullingar is to close down, as part of a move towards a centralised system of cancer care services.

EVERY single hospital in the country should soon be achieving a hygiene score of at least 85%, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney declared yesterday.

Officials at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore, Co Offaly, have cancelled orthopaedic surgery for today due to overcrowding, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation.