A young woman has given evidence of taking what she thought was her last breath, as the teenager she met online tried to "choke the life" out of her before slashing her neck with a knife and leaving her for dead.

Double lung transplant warrior Orla Tinsley who is back in hospital after a health setback has thanked the public for their get well wishes and support.

"We're happy to announce that Mary has improved significantly over the last few days and she has decided to resume her tour as advertised"

Gardaí are investigating the sudden death of a man in his 50s in Dublin.

Planning permission has been granted to build the new National Maternity Hospital on the campus of St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

Latest: The EPA said it was told the lime cloud was contained in the building and that the material was not released to the atmosphere.

LATEST:A Government TD has broken ranks to call on Health Minister Simon Harris to consider buying the €300m land on which the new National Maternity Hospital will be built in a bid to end the escalating scandal.

Tributes have been paid to a respected doctor who died in a boating accident.

The Health Watchdog is raising concerns about the first outbreak of a hospital-acquired disease at the National Liver Transplant Unit.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said there is no “plan B” if a row over the new National Maternity Hospital is not resolved.

Almost 50,000 patients each year are walking out of our emergency departments due to frustrations over long waiting times.

A former nurse who knocked his partner unconscious after a row at a Christmas market must complete 150 hours of community service within two years.

Nurses at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin are refusing to leave patients' bed sides this morning.

Nurses at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin will protest this lunchtime at overcrowding in the hospital's emergency department.

Michael Lyster is still in a serious condition after being rushed to the Mater Hospital in Dublin on Friday.

A man is being treated in hospital after a shooting in Co Wicklow last night.

Locals in Bray say they are shocked by last night's gun attack.

Patients at Dublin's St Vincent's Hospital say they fear the impact threatened funding cuts will have on their welfare.

The threat of a 20% funding cut at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin from tomorrow has been lifted.

St Vincent's Hospital says it will hold a board meeting to discuss the pay of its senior executives.

The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee has said that he is concerned at the timing of the decision by the St Vincent’s Hospital to outline that it pays salary top-ups.

Senior managers from St Vincent's Hospital have agreed to appear before the Public Accounts Committee.

The Dail's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is to call in the board of St. Vincent's Hospital after claims of fraud by Senator John Crown.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny's promised to put an end to charities' abuse of public funds.

A member of the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee has today raised concerns about corporate governance at another voluntary hospital.

New research reveals that 80% of doctors cannot access out-patient detox services for alcoholics.

The HSE has confirmed that Dublin's Loughlinstown Hospital will lose its emergency department at the end of the month.

The Health Minister James Reilly has announced that the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in central Dublin, will be moved to the site of the Elm Park development beside St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4.

The head of the St Vincent's Healthcare Group has said they are looking at ways of improving the admissions process for patients with Cystic Fibrosis.

Visitors to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin are being asked not to bring children under 12 to the hospital where the winter vomiting virus is described as ‘very virulent’.

Anyone with family or friends at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin is asked to stay away for the time being because of an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

Five patients with cystic fibrosis are at risk of infection as they wait for a room at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin while purpose-built rooms remain empty, a group has warned today.

Staff at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin are today appealing to the public not to bring children to the hospital, in a bid to curtail the winter vomiting virus.

St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin says visiting restrictions remain in place following the recent outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

Twenty-four 24 beds are to go at a care of the elderly hospital in Co Kildare, it was announced today.

A father-of-one will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court in February, charged with murdering an English motorist, who died after an alleged roadside attack.

The M50 has now reopened to traffic following an earlier collision involving six cars.

A woman has been injured after a gun attack in Co Wicklow.

The case of a man charged with assaulting an English motorist, who died after an alleged road rage attack in Dublin last September, has been upgraded to murder.

A man who was stabbed in Co Louth yesterday has lost his fight for life in hospital.

Members of the public are being asked to avoid visiting St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin unless absolutely necessary, following an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug there.

The winter vomiting virus has broken out at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with assault causing serious harm to an English motorist who died following an attack in Dublin last month.

Campaigners for Cystic Fibrosis are welcoming the news that the Government is proceeding with the dedicated CF unit at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin.