THE VHI’s refusal to guarantee cover for co-located hospitals on the grounds that they represent “additional capacity” in a saturated market is at odds with what it originally told the Government.

THE future of the Government’s controversial plan for co-located hospitals is in serious doubt after yet another contractual deadline was missed and opposition parties said they would bin the project if returned to government.

Catherine Shanahan says the HSE was as surprised as anyone by move to investigate Cork hospital

A 30-year-old man has died in a single vehicle road accident in Co. Limerick.

PATIENT safety is compromised when too many patients are kept on trolleys in emergency departments according to a consultant in emergency medicine at the Midwest Regional Hospital in Limerick.

UP TO 12 acute hospitals around the country could lose their 24-hour A&E service, following a review of activity levels by the Health Service Executive (HSE).

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a shooting in Limerick overnight.

An elderly woman had to be airlifted to safety today after homes and businesses were evacuated during freak floods.

A HSE memo reveals covert plans to further downgrade three mid-west hospitals.

IT IS almost a year since Tipperary, mother-of-three, Rebecca O’Malley, first spoke publicly of her breast cancer misdiagnosis.

A REPORT on the circumstances that led to a woman with breast cancer being wrongly given the all-clear is expected to be published next month.

THE publication of a report into the delayed diagnosis of cancer in a woman who subsequently had to have a mastectomy has been deferred until January.

A REPORT investigating the circumstances that led to a woman with breast cancer being wrongly given the all-clear is due for publication on Monday.

The appointment of 60 new hospital consultants is being given a cautious welcome by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association.

The Health Service Executive has confirmed plans to appoint 60 new consultants to hospitals which have met targets in their A&E departments.

LABOUR’S Liz McManus has called for a fundamental review of how breast cancer tests are processed after it emerged a second botched test resulted in a woman not being treated for the condition for a year-and-a-half.

DOCTORS at a Tipperary hospital depend on a weekday-only taxi service to transport MRSA swabs for analysis to Limerick.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a man in connection with a fatal stabbing in the city last night.

A woman in her 20's is being treated in hospital after a shooting in Co Clare.

A pedestrian has died after a road accident in Co Limerick.