In the run-up to Bastille Day, singer, Jeanette Byrne (inset), will perform from the songbook of the famous French chanteuse Edith Piaf at Triskel Christchurch in Cork on Saturday.

The lobby group Patients Together has criticised the Government over delays in planned developments at two hospitals in Mullingar and Dublin.

NURSES have been accused of misleading people by saying there are more empty hospital beds than patients on trolleys.

A Dublin mother suffering from cancer who took her case to the High Court in a bid to obtain a hospital bed has been told that she will receive treatment from next Monday.