YET another chapter in the HSE’s Dysfunction Diaries was published yesterday when the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation issued the latest figures on overcrowding in hospital emergency departments. 

EVERY nation embraces and promotes security-blanket fictions about itself. Creating and sustaining the right image, the winning impression is as important in today’s never-ending struggle to attract foreign investment — jobs and some taxes — as divisions of well-mounted cavalry were when a different kind of imperialism prevailed.

LUKE MING FLANAGAN won’t be smoking a celebratory splif after the Nov 6 Dáil vote on his proposal to legalise the supply and consumption of cannabis.

Heavy use of high-potency cannabis is putting young people at risk of stroke, a leading specialist told an inquest.