One of the country’s foremost experts on epilepsy has warned he is unable to look after his patients properly, and will be forced to send them abroad for treatment unless two units needed to monitor seizures are opened.

The HSE has performed a U-turn on its decision to refuse an epileptic Cork woman the right to appeal its ruling denying funding for overseas treatment.

A woman with severe epilepsy who has been waiting two years for vital tests has been refused funding for overseas treatment because her application was delayed in the Christmas post.

Catherine Shanahan says HSE red tape is delaying one woman’s vital treatment

On a day which promised so much, Patrick Mullins salvaged a single win from his four rides in Gowran Park yesterday as he closes in on Billy Parkinson’s record, set in 1915, for the number of winners ridden by an amateur in a calendar year.

Tom Higgins