The number of children waiting more than 12 months to see a consultant paediatric rheumatologist jumped 80% in a single year, against a backdrop of Government inactivity implementing a plan to improve patient care.

The family of an Irishman killed in a plane crash in Central Africa will travel there in the coming days.

An Irishman was on board an aircraft carrying mining executives which crashed in Africa, and whose wreckage has just been found.

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