St Flannan’s progress to a semi-final meeting with Connacht champions St Raphael’s on Monday week.

Two people who screened the now terminally ill Ruth Morrissey’s smear test for the MedLab laboratory in 2012 which came back as negative have been withdrawn from the witness list in the long-running case.

A hospital consultant yesterday apologised to the family of a 53-year-old man who died from lung cancer after an alleged failure to carry out procedures and tests which could have led to an earlier diagnosis.

A woman who died from sepsis after developing an “extremely rare” infection “had everything to live for” after losing eight stone for an operation, her daughter has said.