THE Irish employers of a Finnish pathologist who worked as a locum in hospitals in Galway and Cork never bothered to run a check with the Helsinki hospital where his work was found to be negligent.

ALLEGATIONS of serious flaws in the laboratory system at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are “neither credible nor grounded in reality”, the Government insisted last night.

Notorious anti-Syrian Christian warlord Samir Geagea was released today after 11 years in prison, his spokeswoman said, in what marked the latest reconciliatory step in civil war-scarred Lebanon in the wake of the recent collapse of Syrian military dominance.