THE proposed closure of an intensive care unit (ICU) at Nenagh General Hospital has been put on hold.

NENAGH General Hospital in Co Tipperary could lose its intensive care unit as early as next month, a local lobby group has claimed.

TEN major hospitals have been forced to offer services despite failing to reach the necessary staffing levels due to ongoing public service employment restrictions.

THE Minister for Health’s car was pelted with eggs and cheese by protesters as she arrived at Nenagh General Hospital for an official function yesterday.

A FATHER told a court how his family will never forget New Year’s Eve 2008 as Padraig, his youngest of nine children, was killed in a “senseless accident”.

THE cost of staying in a public nursing home is likely to be more expensive than a private facility under the new Nursing Home Support Scheme.

THE wife of a man, who was crushed to death in a weekend truck accident, tried to resuscitate him in his final moments.

THE Government will manage to cling onto its Dáil majority with the help of two Independent TDs who have pledged their support to Brian Cowen in a motion of confidence in his leadership.

A GP group in the mid-west has expressed outrage over a HSE advert announcing its plans to end 24-hour A&E services at Nenagh General Hospital.

A TIPPERARY hospital which the Health Service Executive plans to downgrade is providing a vital service to Limerick patients with a life threatening blood disorder.

AN average of 50 medical patients a day are occupying surgical beds in the Mid Western Regional hospital in Limerick, a Health Service Executive document has revealed.

THE Government’s hospital co-location policy was slated at a public hearing yesterday by a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

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VICTIMS with serious injuries from accidents occurring in north Tipperary will from this week bypass Nenagh General Hospital and be transferred directly to the major trauma centre at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick.

THE son of Euro Lottery mega-millionaire Dolores McNamara has a damages action pending in the High Court arising out of a fall that occurred on a construction site in 2005, it was learnt yesterday.

GARDAÍ have mounted an investigation into the circumstances in which the son of lottery millionaire Dolores McNamara received serious leg injuries at a house near his mother’s luxury Killaloe mansion.

SPENDING cuts and staff embargoes have forced Nenagh General Hospital in Co Tipperary to close its elderly care unit over Christmas and the new year, said Labour’s Senator Alan Kelly.

IN THE immediate wake of an advertising campaign being launched to urge drivers to be more careful, six more lives were lost in traffic accidents.

Three people have died today following separate road accidents.

Two women have been killed in a multi-vehicle car crash, gardaí said today.

A woman in her 30s has been stabbed in an attack in Co Tipperary this afternoon.

A YOUNG man gave himself up to gardaí yesterday after detectives investigating a gun murder carried out raids across four counties.

FORMER Health Minister Michael Noonan said any closure would make a bad A&E situation even worse.

GARDAÍ are waiting to interview a Latvian national who is being treated at Nenagh General Hospital for a knife wound as part of their investigation into a fatal stabbing in the town on Sunday.

DOCTORS at a Tipperary hospital depend on a weekday-only taxi service to transport MRSA swabs for analysis to Limerick.

Gardaí are searching for a 17-year-old youth following a stabbing in County Tipperary.

A TEENAGER, an elderly woman and a much-loved doctor have become the latest victims of our roads.

THE spat between BUPA and VHI over risk equalisation is a storm in a teacup. It will not have any affect on patient care.

A KERRY-BASED female obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Mary McCaffrey, is expected to be elected president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) at a national council meeting today.

Nenagh General Hospital in Co Tipperary has suspended all admissions following an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

MARY HAND is waiting for a call that will turn her life around. The 23-year-old from Dingle, Co Kerry, has cystic fibrosis and needs a double lung transplant as soon as possible.

MEDICAL and nursing staff at a Tipperary hospital are to join with a local hospital action group to develop and fund a €50,000 blueprint on how their hospital should be developed.

THE overcrowded A&E department at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick is being clogged up by non-urgent cases because GPs say they are forced to refer routine X-ray cases there in order to get prompt examinations.

PATHOLOGISTS have stopped doing post mortems at Nenagh General Hospital citing health and safety reasons.

An elderly man died last night following a three-vehicle collision in Co Clare last night.

The weekend death toll on Ireland’s roads rose to seven after three people were killed in a head-on collision in North Tipperary early this morning.

THE birth of a baby in an ambulance while in transit between hospitals in Monaghan and Cavan yesterday highlights major flaws in the Hanly Report.

THOUSANDS of protesters opposed to plans for the downgrading of local hospitals are expected to converge on Nenagh, Co Tipperary, today.

A group of the country's most senior medical experts today launched an attack against the Government’s controversial Hanly report.

Thousands of protestors are expected to attend a march in Co Clare this afternoon against the downgrading of Ennis General Hospital.

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

THE Irish Nurses’ Organisation has told its members to refuse work arising from unfilled posts or reduced overtime.

Independent TD Michael Lowry has accused officials at Nenagh General Hospital of covering up the problem of overcrowding during the Taoiseach’s visit yesterday.

A man in his thirties has died following a road accident in Co Tipperary, his name will not be released until all of the man’s family have been informed.