More than 1,500 Cork and Kerry teens are being forced to wait up to three years for vital public dentist appointments — a situation the HSE claims is a success story.

BED closures at a West Cork community hospital are necessary to meet fire safety standards, otherwise the hospital would fail a mandatory registration process, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has claimed.

PEOPLE calling the HSE South’s farm and rural stress helpline are lonely and depressed, are suffering abuse or have specific problems around farming and inheritance.