Your faith in humanity will be restored, destroyed and restored again when you read this American tourist's story.

AN investment advisory firm involved in a €90 million private hospital development in Cork city has petitioned the High Court to wind up the hospital’s backers, Sheehan Medical Ltd.

BOUNCED cheques and emergency tax rates are among the difficulties faced by former staff of a private hospital in Cork city which closed just five months after it opened.

AN investment advisory firm involved in a €90 million private hospital development in Cork city backed by Sheehan Medical Limited has successfully sued them for more than €500,000.

CORK’S TDs are seeking a meeting with the chief executive of Vhi Healthcare next week in a bid to save a private hospital from closure.

THE country’s newest and most advanced private hospital will close within months unless the VHI provides health cover.

SCARCELY four months after it opened, the country’s newest private hospital will today put its 75-strong workforce on protective notice following failure to convince the VHI to cover the facility.

IN reply to your editorial headlined ‘Shell disruption — No support for protests’, (September 11), surely the criminal act here is that our natural resources were sold to this conglomerate at a giveaway price contrary to Article 10.1 of the constitution which states that all natural resources and royalties belong to the State.

TALKS continued over the weekend to try and resolve the planning impasse which threatens to delay the€40 million development of Thomond Park.

THE Limerick rugby club, which is objecting to the €40 million redevelopment of Thomond Park, yesterday pledged to resolve the issue.

A special vigil will take place at Shannon airport today, in memory of the thousands of people killed in the Iraq war.

A CORONER issued a warning yesterday about the use of the banned poison strychnine following the inquest into the death of an elderly farmer yesterday.

BLACKROCK Clinic, one of the country’s largest private hospitals, saw a healthy increase in profits last year, according to its latest accounts.

AFTER seeing the very disturbing images of the Iraqi men tortured and humiliated by American and British troops in Iraq I wonder is this how the coalition forces plan to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people?