More than 13,000 scheduled operations were cancelled by hospitals during the first eight months of this year for reasons including staffing issues and bed shortages, the HSE has confirmed.

A HSE audit has revealed that about 34,000 X-rays around the country were caught up in a backlog and had never been examined by a radiologist.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is projecting a €212 million income shortfall by the end of the year, a figure which does not factor in the cost of a flu pandemic.

LEGENDARY disc jockey Larry Gogan will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin tonight.