The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has warned that patients are dying needlessly - because of the state of the health sector.

Calls have been made for the international community to put pressure on Israel to lift the seven-year blockade on Gaza.

KERRY’S domination of gaelic football in this country could be brought to a shuddering halt not by Dublin, Cork or Tyrone, but by the rapid depopulation of huge rural swathes of the county, a worrying new report has warned.