The Minister for Health James Reilly is being challenged to outline how he intends to shore up the massive deficit in the health budget between now and Christmas.

The Taoiseach is admitting other hospitals may need to apply for an overdraft to deal with over-spending.

Three elderly siblings are being treated for serious injuries after been attacked with a sword and knives by a gang overnight.

The HSE has given approval for a new emergency& department at one of the country’s busiest hospitals.

A man and a woman are still being questioned by Gardaí in Limerick following a stabbing in the city yesterday afternoon which left a man seriously injured.

A man in his 20s has been seriously injured in a stabbing in Limerick city this afternoon.

Nurses at the Midwestern Regional Hospital in Limerick will today stage a four-hour work stoppage in protest at conditions in the hospital's emergency department.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is likely to come under further pressure today after the Health Information and Quality Authority released a timeline of its reports on regional hospitals.

CLOSE to 240 people are registered as blind in Ireland every year as a result of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the main cause of sight loss in people over the age of 50.

Protest rallies are planned in Dublin and Clare today, in opposition to the downgrading of local transport and health services.

A garda has been seriously injured following a car crash in Limerick.

KATIE DRENNAN is always on the lookout for dirt. At this stage, the 20-year-old is not even conscious of doing it; she just scans a room automatically.

A LIMERICK radio presenter will live very publicly over coming days — taking up residence in a front window at the city’s Brown Thomas store.

A post mortem is to be carried out on the body of a man discovered on the banks of the Shannon yesterday afternoon.

Nurses at the Midwestern Regional Hospital in Limerick will today step up their industrial action in protest against overcrowding at the hospital.

A 63-year-old man is dead following a house fire in Limerick.

A man has died in hospital following a road crash in Limerick on Friday morning.

AVERAGE treatment waiting times for public patients have fallen to their shortest level ever at less than three months.

Children’s hospitals must work together to reduce waiting lists for operations, Health Minister Mary Harney said today.

A teenager has died after being stabbed during a row in the Moyross area of Limerick city overnight.

A teenager has been hospitalised in Limerick after being stabbed in the back during an attack in the early hours of this morning.

A young schoolgirl has died after being hit by a car in Limerick this morning.

Investigations continue today into the fatal crash in Co Tipperary which claimed the lives of three teenagers and left another two seriously injured.

Gardaí have named the three teenagers killed in a road crash in Tipperary last night.

A crew member from a Spanish fishing vessel has been rescued off the Co Kerry coast this morning.

A man is recovering in hospital this morning after he was shot in a drive-by shooting in Limerick overnight.

Gardaí in Limerick have arrested a woman in her late 40s in connection with a serious assault in the city last week.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital this morning following a serious assault in Limerick city last night.

A man is recovering in hospital this morning after being stabbed during a row in Limerick last night.

A member of the team investigating the misdiagnosis of breast cancer sufferer Rebecca O’Malley urged the Government today to designate specialist testing centres around the country.

Health Minister Mary Harney tonight ordered an investigation into how a woman with breast cancer was twice mistakenly given the all-clear.

EMBATTLED Junior Health Minister Tim O’Malley was last night embroiled in another health row on his own political doorstep in Limerick.

NURSES have faced intimidation from some hospital bosses over their protests to highlight the state of A&E wards, it was claimed yesterday.

An 89-year-old man has died in a gorse fire in Co Clare.

Arrangements are being made to return home the body of an Estonian teenage drug smuggler.

One person has died in a road traffic accident in Limerick today.

A post mortem examination has taken place in Limerick this afternoon on the body of an elderly man who died in an accident in Co Clare yesterday evening.

A post mortem examination has taken place in Limerick this afternoon on the body of an elderly man who died in an accident in Co Clare yesterday evening.

A young man is in a serious condition in hospital after falling from a balcony in Limerick last night.

Gardai have released the name of the man who was killed in a car accident in Limerick last night.

A man in his fifties is seriously ill in hospital after being knocked down in Limerick.