The widow of hero garda Tony Golden, who was shot dead two years ago while trying to protect a woman from her abusive partner, has accepted a medal for bravery on his behalf.

The HSE has been strongly criticised for the slow progress in reinstating a helipad at Cork University Hospital — Ireland’s only level 1 trauma centre.

Grandmother Christine O’Shea would have been completely paralysed within a few months if her family had not paid for her to have a private MRI scan.

This year’s degree show at the Crawford College of Art and Design is an exhibition not to be missed. Until June 15, students graduating in fine and applied art are showing their work in the college’s high-ceilinged studio spaces.

There is a growing fury among unions, representative bodies, and charities over a plethora is issues piling up as government negotiations continue.

SAS soldiers who shot dead eight IRA men and a bystander as they attacked a police station in the North acted excessively, a lawyer for the bereaved claimed.

A man kept a viable pipe bomb in a bedside locker in the room he shared with his partner and young child, a sentencing hearing at Limerick Circuit Court heard yesterday.

A former postmaster at Crosshaven post office appeared at Cork District Court yesterday on sample charges arising out of the alleged theft of payments to pensioners using the post office.

Over-spending by hospitals is running at twice the rate it was this time last year. And there’s little sign the trend is going to change, writes Claire O’Sullivan

THE former Cork City Blacktie store is due for sale, within a week of the Irish suit hire company announcing it was going into liquidation, with closure of 11 shops from tomorrow, after a meeting in the Plaza Hotel, Tallaght.

Almost the entire staff of one of Cork’s main hospitals has been offered the chance to take unpaid leave next month because of its growing financial crisis.

A leading public hospital has warned it will no longer carry out blood tests for GPs or send staff payslips in the post in an attempt to save frontline services from budget cuts.

The family of a Cork father-of-two who died in hospital after an alleged delay in his treatment yesterday settled their High Court action for damages for €500,000.

We are all equal in God’s eyes.

We scan a selection of trading up homes from around Cork city and county

OPPOSITION politicians in Cork city warned that the closure of the emergency department at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital and the transfer of orthopaedic services from St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital may be a disaster for patients.

CILLIAN MORRISON struck late to give UCD a victory they just about deserved against Mick Cooke’s new charges at Hunky Dory’s Park.

TWO theatre lovers made a dramatic start to married life yesterday.

THE board of one of Cork’s biggest hospitals has described the consultants’ report into hospital services in Cork as “seriously flawed” and “based on outdated and inaccurate data”.

PLANS by the HSE to transfer Cork and Kerry’s breast cancer services to one site at Cork University Hospital (CUH) could be on ice as management at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH) have stated that discussions have yet to take place on any relocation.

A MEMBER of the Health Service Executive who was told she couldn’t be screened for breast cancer until April 15, 2008, had an operation for ovarian cancer in February 2001 at the same hospital, it emerged yesterday.

NURSES caring for the abandoned baby girl found in a hold-all on top of a car in Cork on Monday have named her Sophia.

European judges will rule today on whether the Government was guilty of violating the human rights of IRA members shot dead in Northern Ireland by British troops and the RUC.