The chief losers in the bid to build a new children’s hospital are extremely disappointed their site was overlooked in favour of a campus that does not have all the advantages the losing Mater site had to offer.

THE pub culture has been changing in this country in recent years. The drift from the bars is matched only by the drop in vocations and the attendances at Sunday mass, which can probably be attributed largely to the culpable arrogance of prominent church people.

The Coombe Women's Hospital is facing a substantial costs bill of more than €1m over its successful High Court action for declarations that it was entitled to administer a necessary blood transfusion to a female member of the Jehovah Witness faith against her wishes.

THE master of the country’s largest maternity hospital has called on the Government to fortify food with folic acid to reduce the number of babies born with spina bifida.

Ashley Ward handed First Division strugglers Bradford a shock half-time lead over promotion-chasing Wolves at Molineux.