Latest: The deal to move Holles Street Hospital to St Vincent's in Dublin has been published.

There are 437 patients waiting for hospital beds today.

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

It is feared construction of the new National Maternity Hospital will have a negative impact on patients.

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The HSE has ordered hospitals and other groups to stop top-up payments to more than 130 people.

Last year’s league finalists clash in round six with both still in contention of a semi-final spot with Mickey Harte’s men in a slightly more favourable position.

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

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

St Vincent’s of Dublin will play Mayo kingpins Castlebar Mitchels in the AIB GAA All-Ireland club SFC final at Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day, after the two teams emerged from a pair of titanic and hugely entertaining tussles in today’s semi-finals.

St Vincent's (Dublin) 3-12 Portlaoise (Laois) 3-9

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

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly has paid €5,000 to charities nominated by man whose eye socket he fractured during an unprovoked attack in a pub.

Bigger hospitals offer better outcomes to patients brought in for urgent care out of main working hours, a consultant doctor has said.

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.

Support staff at seven hospitals in Dublin are to hold a two day strike next month as part the escalation in the unions action against Government pay cuts.

Health Minister Mary Harney has today insisted that the new unit for cystic fibrosis patients at St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin will be fully operational by 2011.

DART services in south Dublin are disrupted this morning following an incident in which a woman was struck by a train.

Dublin Co Committee has appointed Pat Gilroy (St Vincent's) as manager of the senior football team for a two-year period.

ST VINCENT'S (Dublin) 2-8 TYRRELLSPASS (Westmeath) 0-7, Cusack Park

The Health Service Executive has confirmed plans to appoint 60 new consultants to hospitals which have met targets in their A&E departments.

The final weekend of the Nivea For Men SuperLeague Northern and Southern Conferences has arrived.

Former Mayo captain Ciaran McDonald has returned to training with the county panel, with manager John O'Mahony insisting: "he'll have some input in the league campaign."

After an injury-ravaged 2006, Colin Moran will captain Paul Caffrey's Dublin side in Saturday's Dublin Bus/Evening Herald Dubs Stars match in Portmarnock (throw-in 2pm).

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Today will see Ballyboden clubman Stephen Hiney pull on a Dublin jersey for the first time since July 2005, as the capital side take on the Dubs Stars in the annual end-of-year clash.

Gardaí are investigating the possibility that contaminated heroin may have led to the deaths of six addicts in Dublin.

UCD are the new Dublin county football champions after beating St Vincent's in last night's final at Parnell Park.

Yesterday evening's Dublin senior football championship semi-finals in Parnell Park were called off.

It is a big weekend for Merry Monk Ballina, who play two home games as week two of the Nivea for Men SuperLeague gets underway.

THE Health Service Executive's (HSE) €11 billion spending plan, which includes cutting 600 jobs, has been criticised as a "con" by a healthcare workers' union.

THE Government is considering extending the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to cover patients who are still waiting to get an appointment with a consultant.

Diarmuid O'Flynn talks to UCD GAA's development officer, Dave Billings, about the thorny issue of third level colleges playing senior championship.

TWO more hospitals have revealed they supplied pituitary glands from deceased patients to pharmaceutical companies, bringing to 22 the number of hospitals that have admitted their involvement so far.

DUBLIN manager Tommy Lyons offered his resignation to the County Board following their Leinster SFC defeat to Westmeath at Croke Park.

THE majority of Dublin hospitals, heavily fined for failing to perform within budget, declined to comment yesterday on the penalties.

MORE than 150,000 bed days were denied to patients awaiting treatment last year, due to cutbacks and a lack of alternative care facilities.

AS many as three quarters of admissions to the country’s largest accident and emergency departments at night are drink related, a study has found.

CRISIS management is now the order of the day in a creaking health service where hospitals are so overcrowded and staff shortages so acute that overtime payments to nurses are running at almost €10 million for the first six months of 2003.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has warned that its members may engage in industrial action if cutbacks in the health service continue unabated.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin should resign over the latest round of hospital bed closures, the Labour Party said yesterday.

Dublin's five main training hospitals - the Mater, Beaumont, St Vincent's, St James' and Tallaght - are expected to announce further bed closures today due to a €100m budget deficit.