THE HSE is failing to meet almost a third of the targets it has set itself, with emergency-department waiting times, staff absenteeism and primary care team levels officially under-performing across the country.

OVERTIME payouts to HSE staff cost the taxpayer more than €400 million in just two years, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner can reveal.

A DOCTOR whose name was removed from the British medical register last year can continue to work in Ireland provided he does not work in any independent capacity.

A nurse convicted of poisoning and assaulting patients in a hospital had been branded "a killer" by sections of the media, her counsel said when her sentence was adjourned by Judge Frank O’Donnell.

There are 215 people on trolleys in A&E units across the country this afternoon.

A MAN was arrested yesterday in connection with a violent assault on a youth in Newbridge, Co Kildare, early yesterday.

NINE second-level students from Naas CBS, Co Kildare remain under observation at the local hospital with mystery flu-like symptoms.

DOCTORS and nurses in accident and emergency departments were yesterday forced to juggle with patients in a bid to find more beds.