A NATIONAL school that has seen water charges more than quadruple since the Government’s flat rate was introduced earlier this month has warned parents they will have to pay for their child to go to the toilet.

THERE can be no excuse for the shocking conditions of hygiene revealed in a damning report that will inevitably be seen as a shameful league table of Ireland’s dirty hospitals.

A Wicklow man has pleaded not guilty to murder at the Central Criminal Court.

PUBLIC health doctors will continue to picket outside many of the country’s acute hospitals for as long as is necessary, a spokesman said last night.

THE strike threat to geriatric and psychiatric patients in Dublin hospitals was temporarily lifted last night as SIPTU and health managers agreed to talks at the Labour Court on Monday.

Ward attendants in six psychiatric hospitals in the eastern region are due to mount further strike action later this week in a dispute over pay.

AN Post has denied union claims that a backlog of post was mounting as a result of the postmasters dispute.