A Garda was taken to hospital after being struck in the face near his eye in what sources say was an unprovoked attack.

The number of people forced to wait on trolleys at one of the country’s largest hospitals, Cork University Hospital, is at its highest in a year.

A YOUNG teenager suspected of stabbing a grandmother yesterday morning is due to under-go psychiatric assessment today.

OUR LADY of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda was described as “filthy” with “toilets often blocked for long hours”, according to an online survey of hospital cleanliness standards.