The Health Services Executive must resolve the problems with the troubled Monaghan General Hospital, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

THE notice announcing the death of Patrick Walsh said he had gone peacefully but if that is so, the retired farmer’s last moments contrast starkly with the strife his untimely passing has left behind.

HOSPITAL campaigners have refused to be reassured by the ordering of an internal report into the latest death of a patient denied treatment at Monaghan General Hospital.

There are calls for an investigation into how a seventy-year-old man was allowed to die, having been refused urgent surgery at four separate hospitals.

BADLY managed hospitals where patients’ health is not improved by high treatment costs have been fined €7.5 million.

A HOSPITAL unable to treat a heart attack victim because its A&E service was off-call will remain closed to emergencies for at least two months.

CAMPAIGNERS calling for the restoration of full maternity services to Monaghan General Hospital have accused the Government of playing Russian roulette with the lives of mothers and babies.