The Mental Health Commission has identified two critical and nine areas of high risk non-compliance at centres in Dublin and Laois.

A €40,000 assessment of damages for a keen young goalkeeper, who suffered “a modest reduction of movement” to his left thumb, has been approved by the Circuit Civil Court.

More than 13,000 people over the age of 75 waited on trolleys for over 24 hours in emergency departments this year, it has emerged.

Doctors and nurses are failing to recognise the deteriorating condition of patients in many cases because of the limited application of a pioneering early-warning system used in Irish hospitals, a HSE audit has found.

Three people have been taken to hospital after a crash in County Monaghan yesterday.

Three people have been taken to hospital following a serious collision involving two cars in County Monaghan.

Microdosing — taking a tiny amount of mood-altering LSD or magic mushrooms — is seemingly on the increase. Should we be worried, asks Helen O’Callaghan.

A recommendation by the Personal Injuries Board that a 13-year-old schoolgirl be paid €3,500 for an injury she sustained in a traffic collision was increased by 400 per cent after her legal team refused to accept the offer.

The family of a woman who died after a charting error resulted in her only getting half her normal dose of an epilepsy drug for 23 days have settled their High Court action over her death for €260,292.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a hit and run and attempted car hijacking in Tallaght.

The family of a man stabbed to death by his schizophrenic stepson has said that the mental health system in Ireland had let two families down.

A five-year-old boy has been awarded €5,000 after he was left with a scar on his head from being hit by a metal trolley in a creche in the Dundrum Shopping Centre.

A teenager stabbed to death in Tallaght was on the phone when he was fatally wounded.

A young man who absconded from an open prison and lived "in plain sight" for more than four years before re-arrest has won Supreme Court declarations that his re-arrest and subsequent detention to serve out the rest of his 16-month sentence were unlawful.

It was the final whistle for former Dublin footballer Denis Bastick, who last night became the sixth

The HSE has only implemented 10 out of 36 Ombudsman recommendations three years after an investigation into the health service.

Patrick White, who was in his mid-40s, was a well-known face on the labour ward at CUMH and further afield.

There are 509 people on trolleys across the country this morning.

Paul Dingivan and Paul Reck, two men who lost their wives to cervical cancer, are the latest people to go public with their grief in order to get to the truth about the smear test scandal.

John’s youngest son improvises on Mother’s Day and makes a card instead for his dad, while his classmates make cards for their mums.

Two funerals took place in Ireland yesterday, each getting public attention but for very different reasons.

The death of a homeless man in the emergency department of Tallaght Hospital is a terrible tragedy.

Update 6.24pm: A total of €5m of funding is to given to the HSE to speed up the discharge of patients.

The number of people waiting for beds at hospitals around the country has climbed to just over 600, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

As the number of patients on trolleys who are awaiting a hospital bed increased to 575 yesterday, the HSE warned that the nasty flu season is far from over.

Andrea O’Mahony, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just before her 23rd birthday, is urging anyone with any form of MS to engage in a landmark study that could potentially unlock the mystery of the genetic and lifestyle factors behind the disease.

SARA Byrne has had three major surgeries to bring her inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) under control, but she has reason to be hopeful.

A public health emergency has been declared to combat the spread of a potentially lethal superbug detected in 306 patients to the end of September.

A public health emergency has been declared to combat the spread of a potentially lethal superbug detected in 306 patients to the end of September.

The founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation said he is “withdrawing gracefully” from his public campaign opposing the location of the new children’s hospital at the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin.

A young boy on his way to a football match died from traumatic brain injuries after he was struck by a truck.

Sam McNicholl, who runs Connolly’s popular pub and music venue in Leap, Co Cork, has described sharing a trolley with a handcuffed prisoner in Cork University Hospital’s emergency department last month.

There were 601 patients on trolleys in acute hospitals across the country yesterday, the third highest figure this year, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Almost 44% of admitted patients on trolleys yesterday were waiting more than nine hours for a hospital bed, it has emerged.

A leading consultant has dismissed what he has described as a 'scare story' about families leaving elderly relatives in hospitals.

A woman who suffered severe injuries in a road accident in Co Sligo has been awarded some €518,000 damages by the High Court.

A woman has died after a three-vehicle road accident in Co Westmeath this afternoon.

Today's figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that more than 350 people are waiting for a hospital bed.

There are almost 300 people on Ireland's hospital trolleys and overflow areas of wards today.

There are 271 people waiting on a hospital bed today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

An injured American tourist, who broke her hip while attempting to drive a mobility scooter up the gangplank of a cruise ship in Cobh more than three weeks ago, has finally been airlifted home.

An elderly American tourist feels like she is “being held hostage” by the Irish healthcare system after sustaining a serious injury in Cobh more than three weeks ago, writes Kelly O'Brien in Cork's Evening Echo.