CONSTRUCTION on a €9.5million building for the North Western Health Board began before formal funding for the project had been secured, a Dáil committee heard yesterday.

THE health board facing an inquiry today into its unauthorised building of a €9.5 million new headquarters denied last night that there was anything irregular about another recent property deal it undertook.

THE unexplained source of funding for a €9.5 million health board headquarters is to be scrutinised by a powerful taxpayers’ watchdog.

IN 1995 he was sentenced to 238 years imprisonment, the longest sentence in Irish legal history, today he walks free.

HOSPITALS guilty of bad management and delaying the discharge of patients have been hit with fines totalling €4.4 million.

A patient displaying SARS-like symptoms was tonight being treating in isolation in a Co Donegal hospital, health officials confirmed.

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

CHILD psychologists are helping gardaí investigating a serious sexual assault on a four-year-old boy near his home over the weekend.

The North Western Health Board has been instructed by the Department of Health to make a saving of €950,000.