THE number of donors suing the blood board for delays in telling them they had hepatitis C is set to rise following the Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s (IBTS) public apology yesterday.

AN independent review of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) delay in notifying blood donors in the nineties that had contracted Hepatitis C has criticised the organisation’s management and reporting structures.

THE Irish Blood Transfusion Service yesterday confirmed it is being sued by three people who tested positive for hepatitis C but who were not informed for a number of years that they had the virus.

THE doctor who acted as whistleblower in the hepatitis C scandal last night launched a blistering attack on her own organisation, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).

A UNIT of incorrectly labelled blood recalled from a maternity hospital was inadvertently sent to another hospital because of poor quality control at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

A 46-year-old father-of-three has received two life sentences after pleading guilty to the murder of his wife and her former boss, a well known publican in Co Waterford last year at the Central Criminal Court today.

FORMER chief medical officer of the Blood Transfusion Service Dr Terry Walsh is facing a formal inquiry into his actions in the Hepatitis C infection scandal.

THE issue of tainted blood was the greatest bureaucratic scandal of the 20th century in Ireland. It has already involved more than 75 premature deaths. That total is likely to increase to more than €200.

A BITTER war of words erupted yesterday between the Government and the Blood Bank over the handling of the State’s blood supply.

The Department of Health is due to react today to allegations by a senior official against the head of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

A GROUP of international medical experts is set to decide within weeks whether blood donations should be tested at just one centre.

The head of the blood bank, Martin Hynes, has been suspended.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has suspended the doctor that uncovered the blood transfusion scandal in 1994.

The man being questioned in relation to the deaths of two people in Waterford yesterday morning, has been held overnight by Dungarvan gardai.

A man was being questioned by gardai today after the early-hours deaths of a middle-aged man and woman in locations five miles apart.