RESIDENTS opposed to a new bus lane being developed on a key Limerick city route are expected to pack a specially convened meeting of Limerick City Council this afternoon, when a vote will be taken.

SECURITY staff at three hospitals in Limerick City have unanimously balloted in favour of industrial action following claims their employer has cut the hours of union members because of their refusal to forfeit monies owed over the past three years.

A mother who abandoned her baby just hours after giving birth is being urged to make contact with the gardaí or the HSE.

LIMERICK’S four hospitals are facing a financial crisis — having overspent their budgets.

ST JOHN’S hospital in Limerick has issued an alert to former patients after a short-term care worker was found to have TB.

AN expert health group set up to investigate the country’s first recorded outbreak of a potentially fatal skin disease in Limerick this year has still been unable to identify the source of the infection.

THE Mid-Western Regional Hospital said yesterday it was investigating a further case of the Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS).

A VERY rare skin infection contracted by four babies born at Limerick’s Regional Maternity Hospital could lead to serious illnesses such as septicaemia, a top consultant warned yesterday.

A PREGNANT mother-of-eight who just returned from a sun holiday in Spain was locked up in Limerick jail last night over an unpaid litter fine.

MORE than 500 late vocation aspiring doctors have applied for the 60 graduate entry medical school places being made available from next September at the University of Limerick (UL) and the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.

THE accuracy of a survey which gave a clean bill of health to six hospitals, claiming no patients had hospital-acquired infections, has been challenged by patients and politicians.

ALL across the country revellers were singing about the perils of forgetting old acquaintances but they were barely into the first verse when the first of the new acquaintances made his presence felt.

THE brutal IRA killing of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe took a poignant twist yesterday when it was confirmed that his daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday, the 10th anniversary of his death.

MUNSTER fans have sacrificed much to support the boys in red, but Noelle Boland more than most.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

The Mid-Western Health Board today denied reports it may have to turn expectant mothers away from Limerick's only public maternity hospital because of staff shortages.

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

THE parents of the 18-year-old Limerick victim at the centre of the collapsed murder trial yesterday spoke for the first time of how their lives were shattered when their son was stabbed to death on August 28, 2001.

WOMEN arriving to Ireland on the verge of giving birth are “a tragedy waiting to happen”, according to the master of one of the country’s largest maternity hospitals.