COUNCILLORS in Louth have called for the abolition of the HSE and its executive over the forthcoming transfer of cancer services from Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda to Dublin’s Beaumont hospital.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions is to decide if criminal prosecutions should be brought against the medical authorities and staff at Cavan General Hospital following the death of an elderly patient in November 2003.

Finbar Lennon, medical advisor to the North Eastern Health Board has offered his resignation over the baby Bronagh Livingston tragedy.