Devising a cross-party health strategy was a very good idea. It did away with the need for opposition politicians to pick apart a vision for the simple selfish reason that it wasn’t their own, writes Catherine Shanahan.

The 16-year-old girl and three of the men, all aged in their twenties, died in separate incidents on Monday.

Hospital waiting lists could be slashed if the Government agreed a five-year plan paying private medics to deal with the overflow, it has been claimed.

A bacterial infection that can cause potentially deadly illnesses has broken out at Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.

A patient in Belfast has tested negative for the Ebola virus, the Public Health Agency (PHA) has confirmed.

A suspected ebola case in Belfast will not put the Republic on heightened alert for the killer disease, the HSE has insisted.

A patient is being tested for the Ebola virus in Belfast.

The secret dumping of radioactive waste in landfill sites in Belfast and Derry posed no risk to human health, a British Department of the Environment review has stated.

Outbreaks of deadly bacteria that claimed the lives of four babies in Northern Ireland hospitals are now officially under control, the region's Health Minister has said.

A deadly infection which killed four babies in the North has been discovered in the taps at a hospital.

All babies transferred to other units from two hospitals in the North where four infants died are to be screened for the killer infection, public health authorities said.

A two-year-old boy with swine flu has died in the North.

Skin cancer rates in north Down are more than double those in other parts of the North, it was revealed today.

Another three cases of swine flu were confirmed in the North today.

People in the North were urged not to get alarmed today after another case of swine flu was confirmed.