A scholarship-winning UCC student from Waterford, who was struggling while studying away from home, was found dead in his bedroom after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs mixed with heroin.

WHILE most of the mothballed hospital facilities can be attributed to a simple shortage of funds at the Department of Health, the fiasco of the vacant health centre in the €60 million civic building in Ballymun exposes a glaring lack of co-ordination between the various health authorities.