Gardaí are investigating an incident in which a man was beaten by three men while he was in bed in his house in North Cork early yesterday.

Two children in urgent need of in-patient psychiatric care were admitted to the adult service at Cork’s Mercy University Hospital because there were no beds available in the child and adolescent mental health services.

HEALTH service managers will be asked to attend a public meeting next week and defend cutbacks that have forced a €5 million mothballed A&E to open part-time only.

A CORONER called yesterday for better policing of “off-licence” drugs, often used in chemotherapy treatments, after a cancer patient died after a dosage error.