Almost one in three disability centres failed to ensure that residents were adequately safeguarded last year, it has emerged.

Risks remain in children's services due to staffing shortages, ineffective governance and management and a lack of regulation, the Health Information and Quality Authority has warned.

The State’s health services watchdog had to stop some private nursing homes from charging residents additional fees to keep their facilities up to standard, a Dáil committee was told.

John Horan was last night elected as the first Dublin-born GAA president since 1924 when Daniel McCarthy finished his three-year term.

A 16-year-old student from Terenure College, Dublin has unlocked the secret to success after his encrypted data storage idea won him the title of 2017 BT Young Scientist of the Year last night.

Donegal chairman Sean Dunnion has expressed disappointment at the GAA’s decision to stage the county’s fourth round qualifier in Croke Park.

The State health watchdog has refused to say every maternity hospital in the country is safe.

The Health Information and Quality Authority says the cleanliness of equipment in the country’s hospitals is a common problem.

The Donegal County Board aim to have a replacement for outgoing manager Jim McGuinness by the end of October.

Donegal GAA chairman Seán Dunnion said the board had to ‘stand by’ Patrick McBrearty after he was the alleged victim of a bite last year.

The Donegal County Board will give Jim McGuinness whatever time he needs to assess his future as manager of last year’s All-Ireland champions.

Daniel O’Donnell will give the full proceeds from a concert at Bundoran in August to the reformed Donegal GAA Supporters’ Club.

On a day when Sean Dunnion took over as Donegal chairman, Tír Chonaill treasurer Grace Boyle warned that a flurry of clubs seeking refunds on an All-Ireland tickets level could present a “serious situation”.

Normally, the distance from the Burlington Hotel to Glenswilly is 260 kilometres or so — but this was no normal week in Donegal.

Donegal County Board has moved swiftly and decisively to end any dispute over the county team’s homecoming after the All-Ireland final.

TIPPERARY boss John Evans remains confident his team can maintain their NFL Division Two status.

Donegal 0-12 Antrim 1-10

A NEW nurse education centre costing €5.3 million is to open at Mercy University Hospital in Cork.

NURSES hit back at the Health Minster Mary Harney yesterday after she accused them of holding the Government to ransom in a staffing row which has seen a €5 million emergency department lie idle for more than a year.

Barry Dunnion will make his first start of the season for Donegal in Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final clash with Derry (Ballybofey, throw-in 4pm).

Defender Barry Dunnion will miss Donegal's All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier against Leitrim after undergoing a hernia operation in Germany.

Donegal 1-9 Armagh 1-8

ULSTER sides may have taken football to new heights in recent years, but the rest of the country has finally caught up with the northern province, according to Donegal defender Barry Dunnion.

The Vodafone GAA AllStars awards for the month of February have been presented today to Donegal footballer Barry Dunnion and Waterford hurler Eoin Kelly.

THE expected result, but it came in unexpected circumstances. The Datapac Sigerson favourites survived a scare in Rossa Park and had the Cork IT forwards kicked better, the weekend would have been ignited by a shock.

NUI Maynooth 0-13, Sligo IT 1-9 (aet)