FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny couldn’t say yesterday how much his party’s proposal to provide 2,300 more hospital beds would cost.

Fine Gael is using the fourth day of the election campaign to highlight the Government's "broken promises" in the area of health.

COMMUNITIES in Monaghan are pleading with the Health Service Executive to drop plans to downgrade smaller hospitals following the death of a two-week-old baby who had to endure a two-hour ambulance journey to Dublin because there was no local neo-natal intensive care unit.

THE birth of a baby in an ambulance while in transit between hospitals in Monaghan and Cavan yesterday highlights major flaws in the Hanly Report.