A patient with metastatic cancer told a doctor he would rather “drown myself in the river” than return for treatment to a cancer centre of excellence where he would face emergency department delays and the likelihood of days on a trolley.

The threatened closure of a facility catering for pensioners with mental health problems is tantamount to elder abuse, according to one of the most prominent GPs in the country.

Teenagers are being urged not to jump into canals to cool off during the good weather.

Just how much Health Minister James Reilly knew of the deal behind a potential €25m pension pot for a union chief will form part of a review into the controversy.

Substitute Johnny Breen finished this Ford FAI Cup tie with an eight-minute hat-trick to see Drogheda through to the last 16 against 10-man Munster Senior League side Mayfield.

Monaghan United ended Sligo Rovers' two-year grip on the FAI Ford Cup with a stunning 3-1 win over the holders at the Showgrounds.

A pioneering new university programme hopes to help sufferers of a disorder that can affect how they relate to other people.

United States tanks and armoured vehicles made a bold incursion into Baghdad and swept through southern suburbs of the Iraqi capital, neutralising intermittent resistance by President Saddam Hussein’s loyalists.

PSYCHIATRIC units should be established in three of the country’s larger prisons because mentally ill people are ending up in jail so often.