SCHOOL bullying could be significantly reduced if the Government trained teachers better in how to deal with the problem, an expert psychiatrist said yesterday.

DR MOSNEY ASYLUM, the medic who appeared to receive €4,940 for treating asylum seekers, is fictional and so was the payment made to him.

IN June 2002, my 87-year-old mother, who lives with me, tripped and fell. She injured her leg and arm, her mobility was permanently affected, and she now only has limited use of her arm and walks with the aid of a stick.

The North Eastern Health Board has confirmed that two of its hospitals supplied pituitary glands from deceased children to a pharmaceutical firm.

UP TO 23 GAA clubs, many of them underage, have been warned players may have been exposed to E coli infection following an outbreak at a club.

PERSISTENT bullying of children with Asperger syndrome (AS) makes them more prone to suicidal thoughts, depression and school absenteeism, a study found yesterday.

The North Eastern Health Board’s report into the death of a nine-year-old girl following an appendix operation at Cavan General Hospital is due to be published later today.

A SECOND minister has challenged Mícheál Martin’s hospital reform proposals by intervening in plans to downgrade Louth County Hospital.

THE North Eastern Health Board (NEHB) has issued a strong statement contradicting claims that proposals to establish a joint surgical department between the two main hospitals in Louth would be “unsafe.”

DUNDALK faces the loss of acute hospital care and the closure of 30 beds in Tralee will create chaos during the summer months, nurses have claimed.

The North Eastern Health Board has reportedly decided to significantly reduce complex operations at Cavan General Hospital following a number of adverse clinical incidents at the hospital.

CONCERNS over surgical procedures carried out at a general hospital are being investigated by the local health board.

THE North Eastern Health Board has denied women’s lives are at risk because of delays in supplying blood products at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth.

The North Eastern Health Board has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a psychiatric patient after he went missing while in the care of two nurses in Co Roscommon.

Two consultants surgeons at a hospital in Cavan have been suspended without pay, it emerged today.

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

SCHOOL sex education has failed and needs to be more explicit to combat rising rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and teenage abortions, the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) has warned.

THE crisis in the health service deepened last night with the country’s main children’s hospital announcing a series of severe cuts.

A SHORTAGE of speech therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists to work with autistic children is having detrimental effects on their condition, parents claimed yesterday.

By Catherine Shanahan>BR> The North Eastern Health Board (NEHB) has received the consent of patients for an independent review of care and treatment by consultant obstetricians at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.

The grandfather of baby Bronagh Livingstone says he will not accept stalling tactics from the North Eastern Health Board.

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 North-Eastern Health Board is to hold a special meeting next month to consider the case of a baby girl who died in Cavan Hospital after her expectant mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital.

A DRAMATIC increase in cancer drug and treatment costs has sent health boards’ spend on cancer services soaring in the space of three years.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), has welcomed the publication of the independent review into the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone and joined the baby's grandfather in calling for the resignation of the North Eastern Health Board.

The family of the premature baby who died last week when her mother gave birth in an ambulance having been refused treatment at Monaghan General Hospital, have reacted angrily to the publication of an independent report into her death.

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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.

A nurse representative on the North Eastern Health Board is to resign in protest at what she claims is the worsening crisis in the region's Health services.

Action must be taken to ensure there is no repeat of a situation in which a baby girl died after her mother was refused treatment at a hospital, Minister for Health Micheál Martin said today.

HEALTH workers are often unprepared for the trauma of patients committing suicide and should be given more time to recover, a survey has found.

Neither recriminations nor Dáil debates will restore the life of Bronagh Livingstone, the new-born ba

MORE people will die needlessly all over the country if crucial services at smaller regional hospitals are lost due to health cutbacks, campaigners in Monaghan said last night.

The North-Eastern Health Board has drawn up guidelines to help teachers address the problem of bullying in schools.

The medical board at Monaghan General Hospital has refused to participate in a proposed forum to examine how services might be restored at the hospital.

OUR Lady’s Hospital in Navan, Co Meath, has become the latest medical centre to be hit by a nursing dispute.

The North Eastern Health Board has confirmed plans to cut 83 jobs this year in an effort to control budget over-runs.

Doctors at Monaghan General Hospital have rejected proposals from the North Eastern Health Board which could have seen full medical services and 70% of normal surgical activity restored.

A TRAVELLER who was called “a knacker” at his workplace Christmas party has been awarded €5,000.

The North Eastern Health Board has refused to comment on reports that a 35-year-old woman might still be alive if the accident and emergency department at Monaghan Hospital was not shut down.

Nearly 2,000 people attended a rally in Dundalk this afternoon to protest against the closure of the Louth County Hospital’s maternity unit.