Doctors are defending their prices this morning after one of the members of the Troika yesterday criticised the cost of GP services in Ireland.

THE Health Service Executive’s reconfiguration programme is all about patient safety and is not a process for closing down rural hospitals, the man charged with the task has insisted.

AN elderly man who suffered a heart attack just 500 yards from Monaghan Hospital died as ambulance staff were forced to rush him to Cavan Hospital 45 miles away.