PUTTING a positive spin on Cavan General Hospital was not enough to convince people that patient care was as it should be at the hospital, Hospital Action TD Paudge Connolly said yesterday.

A Fianna Fáil councillor in Co Monaghan has reportedly paid the Revenue Commissioners €66,000 in back taxes and penalties.

The body of a 40-year-old psychiatric patient has been recovered from the River Shannon in Co Roscommon.

The North-Eastern Health Board has postponed the launch of three sex education booklets for young people.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has accused the North-Eastern Health Board of spending more than €500,000 on reports that were never implemented.

ORLA McKENNA has been waiting five years to have her tonsils removed.

Accident and emergency nurses are due to begin a work-to-rule at a hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, this morning as part of a dispute over staffing levels.

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.

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.

FIFTEEN women, who claim their wombs were removed by a doctor without their consent, say vital medical files relating to their cases have gone missing.

One in six Irish children are bullied at school, says a study published today by a leading child psychiatrist.

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

Criticism has been levelled against the North-Eastern Health Board over its decision to locate a specialist breast cancer unit in Navan rather than in Drogheda.