There are 277 people waiting for a hospital bed today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's Trolley Watch.

Almost 300 people are waiting on a bed in hospitals around the country this afternoon.

The State’s health services watchdog has found serious shortcomings in Cork University Hospital’s neurosurgery ward.

A mother yesterday gave an emotional testimony to a Medical Council inquiry after her son was left brain damaged following a lack of oxygen to his brain during birth.

A garda was injured after being dragged along the road by a getaway car when he and a colleague stopped an attempted burglary taking place in broad daylight.

A two-year-old boy had died after he was hit by a van in Tipperary last night.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following an assault in Co. Tipperary in the early hours of this morning.

THE impending decision to relocate acute hospital services from South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel to other centres in the south-east is being dressed up in fancy clothes and is called “reconfiguration”.

A MAN died after a toxic reaction between one of the world’s most popular cholesterol lowering drugs and a common antibiotic triggered a deadly muscle-wasting disease.

A man in his twenties is dead and seven others including three children are injured after a two-car crash in Co Tipperary.

A 22-year-old female motorist died in a head-on collision with another vehicle, gardai said tonight.

PATIENTS are being detained on trolleys instead of beds at Tipperary General Hospital because of the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) recruitment freeze, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) has claimed.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has announced details of further work stoppages this Friday as part of its campaign for improved pay and conditions.

New hospital wards are being built across the country, only to stay idle because of a lack of funding to staff them, writes Paul O'Brien.