KILKENNY GAA chiefs have revealed a profit of more than €200,000 in 2011.

THE closure of Victorian-era psychiatric institutions has been official Government policy for more than 40 years, yet hundreds of mental health patients still remain in outdated, unsuitable buildings.

VULNERABLE people with mental health problems in Mountjoy Prison are not getting access to full and proper treatment, the latest inspection report from the Mental Health Commission (MHC) has found.

THE Health Service Executive has been accused of “selectively leaking” a report into the death of a 75-year-old woman so it hangs “like a sword” over staff of the Cork hospital where she died.

TWENTY years ago, pensioners on the northside of Cork city offered to contribute 50p a week towards the upkeep of the North Infirmary Hospital in an effort to keep it open.

Dozens of Irish people remain unaccounted for in the aftermath of the earthquake disaster in South East Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said tonight.