Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney confirmed today that Ennis General Hospital in County Clare is to benefit from a consultant-led Accident and Emergency service but will lose its 24 hour A+E status in the long term.

Health professionals will gather at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin today for the 9th Annual Stroke Study Day, organised by the Irish Heart Foundation.

THE Inquiry has recommended the consideration of a law which would introduce a new criminal offence for anyone who fails in their duty to protect a child.

THE report into the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone late last year stresses that a midwifery-led maternity unit should be provided at Monaghan General Hospital, as recommended by a previous review group.