HSE guidelines warn that the type of virus which caused a lethal nursing home outbreak could spread rapidly in enclosed settings and, among older people, may not be stopped by the flu jab.

THERE has been a failure to communicate with people on the benefits of reconfiguring hospital services and to understand people’s fear of change, a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health has heard.

RESIDENTS of a west Dublin suburb turned out in large numbers yesterday to pay tribute to a young Nigerian student who died in a stabbing incident at the weekend.