A midwife who engaged in lengthy court proceedings more than a decade ago to prevent An Bord Altranais stopping her assisting at home births has been struck off the nursing board’s register.

A former director at a notorious care home where elderly residents suffered severe abuse has been struck off the nursing register.

THE cautionary tale of what happened at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, where an inordinately high number of women had their wombs removed, was, we are told, “set in a time of unquestioning submission to authority, whether religious or civil, when nurses and doctors were in abundant supply and permanent jobs were few and treasured.”

THE nurse at the centre of an investigation into two suspicious deaths at Naas General Hospital is “distressed and upset” at allegations that she may have acted unprofessionally.