Junior health minister Kathleen Lynch has raised the possibility of extending the role of the Mental Health Commission (MHC) to the inspection of community outpatient mental health services.

A local health service held up as “best mirroring” the Government’s stop-start ‘Vision for Change’ mental health reform is facing “serious cutbacks” due to staff shortages in the system.

The majority of people jailed for not paying TV licence fines last year spent only a few hours in prison, new figures show.

Just 200 Jedward fans turned up at Dublin Airport last night to welcome their heroes home from Azerbaijan — where they only managed to finish in 19th place in the Eurovision Song Contest.

A total of 3,080 company and business start-ups were recorded between April 1 and 26, a 10% increase on 2011.

A TIPPERARY technology company is set to expand its workforce after signing a lucrative deal to provide technology designed and manufactured by one of the world’s leading providers of vision systems.

HE was a millionaire in his 20s, lost it all, and reinvented himself as one of the country’s best-known adventurers.

NEARLY 40% of Irish companies are in danger of going out of business in 2011, leaving behind combined debts of nearly €300 billion, according to new research.

IT is impossible to implement the Government’s plan to reform mental health services without more staff and further investment, the HSE’s mental health boss has admitted.

Katie Price has fuelled speculation she is pregnant by pulling out of the London Marathon.

DUTCH-owned ACC bank pulled the finger out of a dyke which held back a tide of debt washing around west Cork-based developers Fleming Construction.

NOVEMBER, Friday 13, 2009, might have gone down as a fateful, black day in west Cork – but developer John Fleming bucked the ominous nature of the date when the High Court approved a rescue plan for his troubled companies.

NO national public beds are dedicated in hospitals to people with eating disorders.

THE progressive Killyglen gets the nap to land the Toals Pay Double Result Hurdle at Downpatrick tomorrow, on what is a dreadful weekend of racing in this country.

The Irish Psychiatric Association (IPA) and the Irish Mental Health Coalition (IMHC) issued what amounted to damning progress reports yesterday to mark the second anniversary of the publication of A Vision for Change, the Government’s framework document for mental health.

WILLIE MULLINS enjoyed his first success of the Flat campaign when Financial Reward took the Ballybunion Median Auction Maiden at Listowel yesterday.

More than 1,300 tourists on a Caribbean cruise are to be flown home after their liner was impounded in Barbados.