THE HSE is outsourcing services to avoid the recruitment embargo, but is paying more for the agency staff than if the work was carried out by its own employees, it has been claimed.

IRISH mothers have been playing a leading role in helping the McDonald’s fast-food chain produce healthier meals for children for more than a-year-and-a-half and are lovin’ it.

THE McDonald’s fast food chain is combating claims of super-sizing the nation by letting Irish mothers help change its menu.