AN ELDERLY man with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe burns when he flooded his room in a hospital’s psychiatric unit with scalding water from a hot tap.

BUDGET Travel joins the list of companies offering winter breaks before summer is even over.

Angry nursing unions tonight vowed to pull all their members off hospital wards and health facilities for two hours next week.

DELAYS in finding a bed for a distressed patient at a Cork psychiatric unit may have contributed to her suicide, a Fine Gael TD claimed last night.

THE expert group charting the way forward for mental health services here must look beyond the outdated British model, a top psychiatrist has warned.