The mayors and members of the country’s five borough councils have threatened to take legal action to oppose local government changes proposed by Environment Minister Phil Hogan.

THE HSE has been told to ‘name and shame’ private nursing homes where elderly patients have been abused.

MEMBERS of the independent Workers and Unemployed Action Group in Clonmel have described comments by HSE boss Professor Brendan Drumm on hospital cutbacks as “outrageous”.

THE Labour Party has become embroiled in a political row after a newly elected senator nominated her husband to fill the seats she vacated on two local authorities.

WORKERS holding a 13-week sit-in protest in Co Tipperary are set to reject a €2.2 million redundancy package giving some of them over €52,500.