The country’s highest village is preparing to get its name into the Guinness Book of Records for hosting the biggest hurling match in the world.

Amanda Freeman, a 41-year-old theatre nurse, would “happily leave nursing” if she had some other means of paying a mortgage; instead, with two children to support, she finds herself double-jobbing.

The constant jangling of wind chimes in a neighbour’s back garden was described by 83-year-old pensioner Mary McBride as a deliberate act of cruelty against her and her husband Eddie.

A father of a three-year-old deaf boy yesterday spoke of his family’s disappointment as the activation of his son’s bionic ear has been postponed.

A GROUP representing women infected with hepatitis C through contaminated blood product said they were horrified to learn a woman was diagnosed with the virus following a recent blood transfusion.

Catherine Shanahan tells the story of a 76-year-old woman who went to hospital for an operation. Now she has hep C.

ECHOES resound of one of the biggest ever public health scandals following confirmation by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) that it is unable to discover how a woman developed hepatitis C last year after receiving three blood transfusions.

THE Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has been unable to establish how a woman who received three blood transfusions subsequently developed hepatitis C.