Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald will likely only face a motion of censure for abusing Dáil privilege and alleging named individuals were evading tax, says the Government’s chief whip.

Five family doctor practices each received HSE payments totalling over €600,000 in 2012, including two practices that received payments in excess of €700,000.

THE mother of a suicidal Wexford teenage girl who survived a six-year litany of sexual abuse has criticised the health authorities for offering her daughter a bed in an adult psychiatric hospital.