Kingston Mills, professor of experimental immunology at Trinity College Dublin and emergency medicine consultant Dr Chris Luke both said the HSE has the correct measures in place.

Two experts have said that there is no need for panic in Ireland about the coronavirus.

However, a Cork healthcare expert has warned it is “highly likely” there will be a confirmed coronavirus case in Ireland in the next week or so.

Teenagers are now budgeting for cocaine along with a dress or suit for their debs, a leading addiction therapist has claimed.

One of the country’s leading ER specialists has said cocaine is synonymous with grotesque violence.

Dr Chris Luke outlines the 12 ways to ending up in an emergency department this Christmas. Or not!

An outspoken emergency medicine consultant has described working in an emergency department (ED) as “a bit like working in a human landfill site” where waiting rooms are increasingly like “refugee camps”.

The fear associated with a diagnosis of dementia is like the fear once associated with a diagnosis of HIV — but like HIV, it should become more manageable in the future.

The sister of a teenage boy who died after taking the synthetic "N-Bomb" drug is so frustrated at the lack of awareness programmes in schools that she is voluntarily setting up her own intensive drugs education cycles at post-primary level.

Senior gardaí and medics have called for increased parental supervision around teenage discos after a dozen drunk children — three of whom were unconscious and had to be hospitalised — arrived at an underage alcohol-free disco in West Cork.

There has been an explosion in the number of anabolic steroids seized, with quantities in the first eight months of the year up 300% compared to 2016.

There has been an explosion in the number of anabolic steroids seized, with quantities in the first eight months of the year up 300% compared to 2016.

Update 5pm: Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission are continuing this evening, ahead of a planned work-to-rule by nurses next week.

Today FM's 'The Matt Cooper Show' was broadcast from University College Cork this evening and against the backdrop of plans for controlled injection centres, the issue of drugs and how best to combat misuse was discussed.

Claire O'Sullvan examines where these synthetic drugs are coming from and gets advice for parents on how to talk to teens about them

With 528 patients on trolleys for up to 20 hours awaiting hospital beds, emergency medicine consultants have repeated to HSE chiefs the overcrowding crisis will not be solved without extra doctors, nurses and beds.

Mark Evans reports on the hazards in the home that can result in devastating injuries for children

The HSE has issued a warning about contaminated ‘party pills’ as a teenager fights for his life after taking what is believed to be a potent designer street drug at a party in Cork City.

The introduction of free GP care for children under six is exacerbating emergency department (ED) overcrowding with inundated GPs referring more children to hospital, according to a leading ED consultant.

Dr Chris Luke’s contribution to your article ‘Should Cannabis be legalised?’ (Irish Examiner, March 1) raises serious concerns for me.

Ongoing problems at Aras Attracta, Cork punter scoops a Euromillions prize, Burger King Tralee goes viral and April Fools that went horribly wrong. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime

Senator James Heffernan and Dr Chris Luke lay out the pros and cons for leagalising cannabis in Ireland. Have your say in our poll below.

A leading consultant in emergency medicine has hit out at Ireland’s inability to keep medical graduates in the country, blaming a “fatuous” entry system.

Having navigated the trolley-lined corridors of the Mercy University Hospital to his office, Chris Luke, Emergency Department consultant, said it is difficult to estimate waiting times.

Two homeless men have died in Cork City centre of suspected drugs overdoses in the past week amid growing calls for measures to ease Dublin’s rough-sleeper crisis to be rolled-out to the rest of the country.

Addiction to multiple drugs is becoming such a problem that gardaí, medics, and treatment specialists almost hanker for the days when middle-aged alcoholics were their biggest problem and pubs were the epicentre of socialising.

Emergency departments in Cork city have been confronted with a number of drug-related cases involving new, and highly dangerous, chemicals.

Overcrowded emergency departments will come closer to being shut down next month than at any point in the last 10 years, according to a Cork-based consultant.

A hospital consultant has likened e-cigarettes to heroin substitute methadone as he revealed two children have presented at an emergency department having been poisoned by liquid nicotine.

Nurses raised fears about the safety of the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick yesterday as the number of patients on trolleys reached 45.

THAT children as young as six are picking up dirty needles discarded by drug users in populated areas of Cork, allied to a situation recently in the city centre where drug paraphernalia was found inside a parish church by mass-goers, provides proof — if proof were needed — that heroin is a respecter of no thing or no one. It is a dark and menacing presence in Cork that threatens our future.

Cork City’s best-known emergency consultant is not a fan of methadone, the substitution drug used to get addicts off heroin.

ACCORDING the Health Service Executive, the single biggest cause of death for children over one, is not disease but accidental death, and a change of routine is cited as a key cause for accidents to occur.

One of the country’s largest hospitals will be forced to cope with an “unprecedented” drop in key emergency department staff from next month because of a chronic manpower crisis.

Gardaí believe they have taken most of the “super-strength” heroin linked to two deaths in Cork out of circulation.

The two deaths in Cork last week as a result of overdosing on heroin highlights the fact that the drug problems have not gone away.

Gardaí in Cork have carried out a number of raids on the homes of suspected drug dealers in an attempt to rid Cork City of a batch of unusually pure heroin, after the deaths of two men.

Two men are dead and two more are fighting for their lives in a Cork hospital amid fears that a lethal batch of high-purity heroin has hit the streets.

Two people are dead and seven others seriously ill amid fears that a batch of very high purity heroin is in circulation in Cork.

Health chiefs have issued a stark warning about a deadly form of ecstasy that has been linked to the deaths of two men in Co Cork.

Taking cocktails of drugs is becoming commonplace in Ireland.

Marioara Rostas’s death symbolises a society ravaged by drug-fuelled violence.

ALCOHOL depresses the nervous system so when mixed with other depressant drugs, it can shut the body down completely.

AN increase in savage biting attacks in Cork city and county has left victims with whole ears, lips and even cheeks ripped off.