The HSE has announced that it will be transferring all acute medical services from Monaghan Hospital to Cavan General Hospital from July 22.

A CT SCANNER remains idle in a rented outbuilding behind a garage in Monaghan while the Health Service Executive (HSE) decides on its future.

THE Health Service Executive has denied it has made a final decision on a wholesale cut to services in the north-east.

Life-saving accident and emergency services could be cut at Monaghan Hospital as part of proposed cost savings in north eastern health services, it was revealed today.

FIANNA FÁIL members should not ignore the houses of “blueshirts” or “provos” when canvassing for votes, Junior Minister Brendan Smith told delegates.

OPPOSITION parties are to demand a new patient safety watchdog following a series of damning reports on the health services.

Independent TD Paudge Connolly has said he is prepared to support the Government if the Progressive Democrats abandon their coalition with Fianna Fáil.

The Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil had to be protected by Gardaí in Monaghan today at the official opening of the new Monaghan town bypass.

Thousands of people are expected to attend a protest in Monaghan this morning against the planned downgrading of the local hospital.

PLANS to downgrade Monaghan General Hospital have caused a major split among local Fianna Fáil politicians as the controversial hospital reform plans are set to become major issues in the run-up to the general election.

The Government is facing a revolt from Fianna Fáil members in Monaghan over its plans to downgrade the local hospital.

THREE weeks before Patrick Joseph Walsh died, management at Monaghan Hospital received three letters from consultants and GPs warning it was unsafe to ban surgeons from performing emergency surgery in the evening.

AS the first anniversary approaches of the death of Patrick Joseph Walsh, his family say they are still upset over the circumstances of the pensioner’s death.

THE report into the death of 75-year-old Patrick Joe Walsh was an insult to his memory, independent TD Paudge Connolly declared yesterday.

The official report in to the death of Patrick Joseph Walsh in Monaghan Hospital has heavily criticised consultants there and at Our Lady of Lourdes and Cavan hospitals.

AN OVERHAUL of the way acute hospital care is delivered in the north east to improve patient safety is to be replicated nationally.

ANOTHER woman has given birth in an ambulance by the side of the road following the closure of the maternity unit at Monaghan General Hospital.

ONE of the last patients to be discharged from Monaghan General Hospital’s acute surgical ward at the weekend was the elderly mother of the head of the group campaigning against the continual downgrading of the hospital.

THE body count will continue to rise in Monaghan, community activists claimed last night, because the local hospital must continue to function without emergency surgery.

The Royal College of Surgeons has reportedly recommended the ending of emergency surgery at the Louth County Hospital in Dundalk.

The family of a 75-year-old farmer who died from a bleeding ulcer in Monaghan Hospital after three failed attempts to transfer him for emergency surgery tonight demanded permanent theatre services to be restored to the centre.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney has agreed to meet with Patrick Walsh's sister following his tragic death.

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

Campaigners have said the death of a man en route to Cavan hospital yesterday shows the effect of the Hanly reforms on the health service.

Monaghan General Hospital has announced that five junior doctors are to be let go in the new year.

AN elderly man who suffered a heart attack just 500 yards from Monaghan Hospital died as ambulance staff were forced to rush him to Cavan Hospital 45 miles away.

THE Health Services Action Group (HSAG) has welcomed a report arguing against the downgrading of Ennis General Hospital.

The Fianna Fáil organisation in Monaghan town has decided not to run any candidates in this year’s local elections in protest at the downgrading of Monaghan Hospital a number of years ago.

The author of a report on the future of Monaghan General Hospital says that a new policy on the future of maternity services there is being finalised.

THE North Eastern Health Board wants Minister Micheál Martin to provide funding for a midwifery-led unit at Monaghan General Hospital.

The Bonner Report into the future development of Monaghan Hospital has been published this evening.

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.

THE grandfather of premature baby Bronagh Livingstone, who died last December, has called on Health Minister Micheál Martin to resign.

The grandfather of the baby girl who died after her expectant mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital has called on Health Minister Micheál Martin to resign in light of the current budget crisis in Irish hospitals.

The grandfather of the premature baby who died after her mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital has called for the resignation of the chief executive of the North Eastern Health Board.

The North Eastern Health Board is considering the establishment of a 'flying squad' to assist with emergency births following the death of a premature baby whose mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital last month.

The North Eastern Health Board is in talks this evening about the death of a premature baby who was born in an ambulance after her mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital.

THE CLOSURE of half the country’s accident and emergency units can only be averted if the number of consultants is doubled urgently, doctors warned last night.

THE conflicting versions of events in the two reports into the death of premature baby Bronagh Livingstone were deeply disturbing, opposition parties said last night.

The Labour Party has called on the Government to publish the Irish Medical Council's report on the management of Monaghan Hospital.

The report into the death of a baby who was born prematurely after her mother was denied treatment in Monaghan Hospital is expected to be published later today.

THE family of tragic baby Bronagh Livingstone will be told tomorrow the reasons for the decisions surrounding her birth and death.