The IMPACT trade union is criticising the Government's plans for Universal Health Insurance.

The HSE is to put a special calculator on its website today to help health sector workers decide whether they will take voluntary redundancy.

The IMPACT trade union has threatened to end its cooperation with the Government's decentralisation programme.

A 20 year-old Limerick man was jailed for life today for murdering a friend who he shot in the chest after a five-day drinking binge.