It has been reported that management at St James' Hospital has proposed outsourcing to a private firm jobs held by St Luke's Cancer Hospital staff.

Supporters of St Luke's Cancer Hospital in Dublin are stepping up their campaign to keep the facility at its current location.

The Minister for Health, Mary Harney's, plans to centralise cancer services in around eight hospitals nationwide has received a mixed response from campaigners.

Temple Street Children's Hospital A&E has been voted the best acute hospital in the country by patients and their relatives.