Personal protection equipment has been stolen from children’s hospitals, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

If St Mullins were looking for some inspiration ahead of tomorrow’s Leinster semi-final, it was provided on Thursday when selector Micheál Ryan was discharged from hospital.

A hospital has apologised in court to the family of a 75-year-old man who died a month after falling out of his hospital bed.

A woman of my acquaintance remembers lying in the hospital labour ward in the aftermath of a particularly difficult birth — elated and exhausted.

Four consultant obstetricians at St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, among them an anti-abortion campaigner, have written to GPs in the region to advise that termination services are not available in the hospital.

Patients with bed sores, patients sleeping on mattresses, lack of access to therapies — all feature in the litany of failings criticised by inspectors in the latest reports from the Mental Health Commission.

Hospital overcrowding continued yesterday, with 500 people waiting for an in-patient bed, according to the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation.

There were 649 patients on trolleys in emergency departments or on wards waiting for a hospital bed yesterday, a decrease of just 65 on Monday’s record high of 714.

Severe pressure on health and water services are being tackled by staff nationwide as the massive clean-up continues in the aftermath of Storm Emma.

The driver of a car which crashed into a teacher’s car killing her parents screamed and blacked out when her passenger, a psychiatric patient, allegedly grabbed her steering wheel, the High Court heard today.

As a record 656 patients waited for a hospital bed yesterday, nurses warned that the health service could buckle under pressure from the flu epidemic.

The HSE has spent almost €300,000 over the past three years on burial expenses on patients who died in its care.

The HSE has spent almost €300,000 over the past three years on burial expenses on patients who died in its care.

Gardaí suspect a woman beaten unconscious in a ferocious assault in Carlow on Sunday morning was attacked by a stranger.

Nurses have expressed serious patient safety concerns ahead of next week’s move to the new emergency department at University Hospital Limerick.

Gardaí will now prepare a file for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

An x-ray report found in a department store, a cancer patient’s chart left on the roof of a car before driving away, and a child’s mental-health records accidentally faxed to Bank of Ireland.

Two mental health units have been criticised by the Mental Health Commission for shortcomings, including deficiencies on the use of physical restraint and dirty premises.

Nine hospitals around the country, including the Mercy University Hospital in Cork, face losing their emergency trauma services.

The HSE has been criticised for admitting 21 children to an adult acute psychiatric unit where more than half the staff did not have up-to-date training in Children First, the national guidance for safeguarding children.

A man who contracted CJD during a brain operation performed when he was a child died 30 years later, an inquest heard.

The admission of nine children to an adult psychiatric unit in Kilkenny in breach of regulation has been criticised by the Mental Health Commission (MHC).

A Garda and former senior Kilkenny hurler who lost partial vision after he was run down by a getaway car in a robbery at a Glanbia plant was yesterday awarded almost €280,000 damages in the High Court.

More than 3,500 public patients are waiting over three months for a test to detect bowel cancer which private patients can access within 12 days.

The controversial use of electric shock therapy to treat mentally ill patients against their will should be outlawed immediately, according to the Mental Health Commission (MHC) after a report found its use without consent has increased.

A night at the dogs intended as a fundraiser went ahead last night as a celebration of the life of c after the Tipperary player died on Thursday night.

A consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist was “quite rude” to a patient when she questioned him after he performed a hysterectomy on her, an inquiry heard yesterday.

A proper assessment of patients of a mental health service where 13 people died by apparent suicide in less than two years would have made staff more alert to the risk of them taking their own lives, a report has found.

A system devised by an Irish doctor that allows hospitals to easily and reliably compare caesarean-section rates and outcomes has been endorsed for worldwide use by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Nothing has been learned from the death of Susie Long, who died because of hospital waiting lists, the widower of the mother of two, Conor Mac Liam, said yesterday.

Two men being questioned over the death of a man in Carlow have had their periods of detention exended.

Gardaí were questioning two men last night in connection with a violent attack which left one man dead and another injured.

One of two men who may have been living in a car in Co Carlow for a month has died.

Michael Noonan has signalled he intends to stay on as finance minister after revealing he had a cancerous lump removed from his shoulder last week.

A psychiatric assessment has been ordered on a 27-year-old man accused of murdering a shop manager last Thursday.

A man who stabbed a popular publican in his home was found not guilty of assault causing harm and aggravated burglary by reason of insanity at Kilkenny Circuit Court.

As D’Unbelievables satirised, going out there and enjoying it is something which many a GAA player has been implored to do since underage.

A verdict of medical misadventure has been returned over the death of a 68-year-old man who died after a hernia operation.

Almost €150,000 in cancer charity donations has instead been given to senior hospital chiefs already receiving six-figure publicly-funded salaries.

A woman’s choice of maternity hospital may dictate the type of labour she has as latest figures show a wide variation in medical intervention rates in the country’s maternity hospitals.

Brian Cody believes Clare will be “very difficult to dislodge” as All-Ireland champions.

Kilkenny residents want a Polish man released from prison following his conviction for mugging a pensioner to leave the city.

Henry Shefflin is now all but certain to miss his first Championship match in 15 seasons after picking up a stress fracture on his already injured left foot.

Campaigners in Waterford are optimistic that no services will be cut at Waterford Regional Hospital if the Higgins report into hospital reconfiguration is adopted by the Cabinet in two weeks time.