PARENTS have been warned to vaccinate their children against whooping cough after more than a dozen suspected cases were discovered in Limerick and Clare.

The Mid-Western Health Board has issued a whooping cough alert after five people - aged between seven weeks and 17 years old - were diagnosed with the disease.

TO say security was tight for today’s EU-US summit at Dromoland Castle would be an understatement.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has denied sanctioning new posts at Nenagh Hospital as a ploy to appease the public in the run-up to the local elections.

UNDERSPENDING health board bosses were accused yesterday of passing the blame on to the Department of Health for their failure to manage finances properly.

NURSES’ representatives at a Limerick psychiatric hospital have called for a dedicated children’s unit, to end the practice of placing them in a secure adult ward.

THE Labour Party's Agriculture spokesperson Dr Mary Upton last night called for a spate of mysterious health problems in Limerick to be investigated again.

ANGRY residents in a Co Limerick area plagued by environmental scares yesterday demanded a breakdown of the money spent investigating the problem.

JOHN and Phil Power watched their 24-year-old son suffer from cancer for almost a year before he died last August.

ANGRY theatre nurses have threatened to strike if their local health board fails to pay them new on-call rates sanctioned by the Department of Health in July.

HEALTH experts last night rejected claims from people living in Co Limerick who believe industrial pollution is causing cancer.

CHILDREN with severe dental problems are being removed from waiting lists to camouflage the extent of the problem, according to the head of dental services in the Mid-Western Health Board (MWHB).

IN the course of a letter concerning cancer in the Cappagh/Croagh area of Co Limerick (Irish Examiner, August 12), Pat Geoghegan refers to data from the National Cancer Registry which was supplied to the Mid Western Health Board (MWHB).

THERE were 55 deaths from cancer - three times the national average - in a small area of Co Limerick where residents claim industrial pollution has harmed public health.

THE Mid-Western Health Board yesterday warned young mothers to be on the alert for a bogus nurse claiming to be a member of the board’s staff.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has rejected a call to investigate how blood taken from a Limerick family was lost by the health authorities.

LESS than one-third of children and 36% of adults eligible for the National Treatment Purchase Fund have been treated.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin does not plan to investigate how blood samples taken from a family suffering from mystery illnesses were lost by the health authorities.

A FAMILY plagued by illness will today meet the minister for health to demand an inquiry into how their blood samples were lost by the health authorities.

HEALTH workers in Clare will begin an indefinite strike on Monday following the suspension of three employees at Ennis Hospital.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin is refusing to launch an inquiry into how vital pathology samples belonging to a west Limerick family were mislaid by Mid Western Health Board (MWHB).

GREEN Party leader Trevor Sargent last night called for an investigation

HOSPITAL consultants have been accused of deliberately failing to tell patients stuck on waiting lists that they are entitled to free treatment elsewhere.

A NUMBER of patients in the Mid-Western Health Board (MWHB) have had surgery cancelled because of industrial action by theatre nurses.

Garda drug seizures point to a serious abuse problem in Limerick writes Mícheál Lehane

JOB cuts in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary were discussed by senior management in the Mid-Western Health Board yesterday.