The council has refused planning permission to an application by the owners of the proposed new facility at the corner of Harcourt Street and Montague Street for lifting a condition which restricts its opening hours to

The country’s largest nursing union has warned companies with agency nurses that they have no right to impose the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement on those nurses.

Five firms providing agency workers to the HSE were paid €123m last year — with two sharing an almost €87m payout.

IT was a bit like the Second Coming, and in a way it was.