Over €2m has been spent since 2014 upgrading hospital laboratory information systems which are in the process of being replaced.

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A man has been stabbed by a number of youths during a robbery in Dublin this morning.

St James Hospital is to become the first health care facility in Ireland to provide virtual reality headsets for patients.

A Dublin-based doctor has offered what he says is a solution to a staffing shortage at the biochemistry department in Cork University Hospital (CUH) which has led to the withdrawal of its clinical advisory service and a decision to voluntarily suspend accreditation.

Update - 2pm: Three teenagers have appeared in court charged in connection with a stabbing incident in Longford Town on St Patrick's Day.

A man who was attacked and had boiling water thrown over him as he watched a rugby match in a Dublin city hostel has sued for damages in the High Court.

Gardaí investigating the murder of disabled man Anthony Rogers have arrested a 35-year-old man.

A man has died in a road accident involving a truck.

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Half of Irish men do not know that testosterone deficiency (TD) is a medical condition — even though many may be living with it, writes Margaret Jennings.

A woman who set fire to a house, causing the death of a disabled grandmother, has been jailed for 12 years, with the last four suspended at Dundalk Circuit Criminal Court.

The only Irish company specialising in mass spectrometry analysis, used to detect food fraud and identify drug abuse in sports, EireChrom in Tipperary is preparing to take on the might of the multinationals.

A law graduate has been sentenced for five years in prison with 18 months suspended for setting fire to a medical student in a Galway nightclub three years ago.

A widespread nurses’ strike across the country’s major accident and emergency departments is increasingly likely following a decision to extend a ballot for industrial action to hospitals plagued by emergency department overcrowding.

Gardaí believe a house fire in Co. Louth overnight , which left an elderly woman with serious burn injuries, may have been started maliciously.

The Garda Ombudsman is investigating a fatal crash in Dublin overnight.

Gardaí are investigating two shootings in Dublin overnight in which one man was injured.

Gardaí have issued an appeal for witnesses to a serious assault earlier this week in which a detective garda was injured, saying they particularly want to speak to two men, and a woman pushing a pram.

A Dublin mother is to be sentenced in May for breaking another woman’s jaw, biting her cheek and pulling out “chunks” of her hair during a drunken fight at a house party.

A Crumlin man who launched a violent attack on his heavily pregnant former girlfriend has been given the maximum sentence of five years.

Brendan McMenamin aged 30, of Cypress Downs, Templeogue, has today pleaded not guilty to assault causing harm to Garda Enda Ledwith at Na Fianna GAA Club, St Mobhi Road, in March 2012.

Four people have been arrested in connection with a serious assault in Dublin last weekend which has left a man in a serious condition in hospital.

A Clinical Director at St James Hospital in Dublin has said the HSE is not to blame for the price of medication in Ireland.

A leading cancer doctor has warned that failure to progress two long-awaited radiation oncology centres in Cork and Galway would deprive patients in the south and west of services already available in Dublin.

Hospitals which refuse to carry out abortions to save women’s lives because of their religious ethos could face the withdrawal of State funding, the health minister has warned.

The master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin has expressed his disappointment at the decision to build the new National Children's Hospital at St James Hospital.

Six people have been taken to hospital after a two car collision in Dublin early this morning.

When he was lying in a hospital bed 12 months ago undergoing a heavy dose of chemotherapy and listening to a tale about a man who had died from the same type leukaemia he had, John McGrath cracked.

A 78-year-old woman who went missing from a secure unit at St James Hospital in Dublin has been located safe and well this afternoon.

Children's Hospital development board member, businesswoman Norah Casey, has repeated the Mater Hospital site as the best location for the new facility.

Five men were stabbed and a sixth suffered serious head injuries after a fight broke out at a birthday party this morning.

A SPORTSMAN all his life, Con McLaughlin, 100, was happy to lose a bet with his doctor when he feared he would not see his next birthday.

OVER €80 million had been invested in cancer research here over the past decade by the Health Research Board (HRB), a world conference on the life-threatening disease was told in Dublin yesterday.

Clare hurling legend Ger Loughnane has become the latest person to be subjected to rumours of a premature death on the global social media service Twitter.

THERE were chaotic scenes at the traditional Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin yesterday after the sound of several gunshots triggered a stampede among horses and members of the public.

THE VHI’s refusal to guarantee cover for co-located hospitals on the grounds that they represent “additional capacity” in a saturated market is at odds with what it originally told the Government.

THE future of the Government’s controversial plan for co-located hospitals is in serious doubt after yet another contractual deadline was missed and opposition parties said they would bin the project if returned to government.

The Health Minister Mary Harney has said the possibility of using St Luke's Hospital in Dublin to provide palliative care is being looked at.

A homeless man who started fires at St James Hospital, Heuston Station and James Street causing the evacuation of the station and cancellation of the Luas has been given a seven-year sentence.

CANCER patients in the south of the country must travel to Dublin at their own expense to avail of highly specialised imaging equipment crucial in the management of the disease.

GARDAÍ are investigating whether a house fire in which an elderly father-of-two was killed and his wife and son injured was started deliberately.

Irish researchers are carrying out 14 clinical trials to find-life changing breakthroughs in the treatment of breast cancer, it emerged today.

The Department of Health and Children is preparing for deaths as a result of the swine flu pandemic, officials confirmed this afternoon.