Anti-water charge campaigners are planning a major demonstration against the ongoing arrests of people involved in the Jobstown protest.

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.

The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

HSE director general Tony O’Brien has claimed it will take until the summer to teach all doctors and nurses basic hand hygiene standards after yet another hospital dirt scandal.

Hospital chiefs across the country have been ordered to crack down on sloppy hygiene among medics which is putting tens of thousands of patients at risk of infection.

NOBODY does an eye roll like Stephanie. Like last week. On a lovely morning, the cherry trees outside dappled with sunshine, she’s at her desk talking to a client who should be in a room with me discussing her career, but who, we gather by eavesdropping on Steph’s conversation, is in fact at our old premises in Northumberland Rd.

AN independent hygiene audit of a Dublin hospital has found a drop in standards since it was last assessed two years ago.

The Government was accused today of doing nothing to tackle incidences of blindness despite predictions that cases will soar 170% over the next 25 years.

An accountant has gone on trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for assaulting a former telecommunications company engineer who is now blind in one eye.

APPROXIMATELY three in 10 consultants working in public hospitals are treating more private patients than permitted under the terms of their new contract.

A MOTHER-OF-THREE who credits her optometrist with saving her life is living proof of the value in the advice: “Should have gone to Specsavers.”

AN Irish woman killed in the Air France disaster was in love with her childhood sweetheart and about to start her dream job as a surgeon, her funeral mass heard yesterday.

An Irish woman killed in the Air France disaster was in love with her childhood sweetheart and about to start her dream job as a surgeon, her funeral mass heard today.

THE remains of one of the three young Irish doctors lost in the air crash off Brazil five weeks ago are on their way home after a positive identification was made from a body recovered from the sea.

IT was the green, green grass of home that finally made Jenny crumble.

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.

ANTI-BIOTIC resistant MRSA is present in most hospital isolation rooms, according to a study on the potentially fatal virus.

EIGHT patients of one Dublin hospital sent to Britain for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) returned in worse health.