The State’s health watchdog has admitted feeling "slightly hamstrung" in dealing with cases where an elderly nursing home resident is in physical danger.

Please allow me to respond to Janet Maxwell, Church of Ireland Head of Communications (Letters, Jan 10). She wrote to you on the Protestant evangelical Bethany Home (that closed in 1972), in response to a column by Victoria White and a subsequent Examiner editorial.

Criticism of the decision to allow the wife of a member of the Oireachtas committee hearing submissions on abortion to make her own submission has been rejected by her husband.

Already the publicans lobby is on full throttle. Michael Flynn (Minimum alcohol price is smart and may save pubs, Jan 27) attacks the right of supermarkets to sell, and consumers the right to purchase alcohol there.

ALLEGATIONS of garda “harassment and brutality” against young people have been made by a community organisation at an Oireachtas committee.

PARTICIPANTS in controversial vaccine trials in mother-and-baby homes have been told by the Department of Health that it can’t give them their medical files or any trial documentation as it is legally bound to return the files to the drugs company.

IT is regrettable that Sean Kelly MEP made no reference to alcohol consumption in his letter (July 7) on suicide prevention.

Relatives of mental health patients opposing the relocation of one of the country’s largest facilities to the grounds of a new super prison will this week step up their campaign.

The Chief Executive of the HSE Professor Brendan Drumm today told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children that there is no recruitment embargo operating in the health service.

TV ads for junk food should be banned during peak viewing times for children according to a doctor and Fianna Fáil TD.

HOSPITALS must be more open in dealing with patients who contract the MRSA superbug, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney insisted last night.

ARTHRITIS suffers forced to wait years for treatment are becoming suicidal, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.