The HSE has apologised to a 57-year-old woman whose breast cancer was misdiagnosed three times and who later had to undergo a mastectomy after an invasive cancer was finally discovered.

THE country’s four Irish Coast Guard helicopters should be allowed to respond to heart attack and illness calls where patients are in isolated areas, a medical consultant said yesterday.

A 61-YEAR-OLD father of three who was left a paraplegic following an operation to remove a tumour from his spine could have been treated without surgery, the High Court heard yesterday.