A nurse quarantined at a New Jersey hospital because she had contact with ebola patients in West Africa is suing the state governor and health chiefs, saying they held her illegally against her will.

Vital childhood developmental checks are slipping through the cracks as public health nurses struggle to cope with an increasing clinical case load, it has emerged.

ON behalf of the members of the Institute of Community Health Nurses, we wish to commend Fergus Finlay for his column headlined ‘Community nurses and home helps show how to run a health service’ (July 20).

THE 10-year-old daughter of a Dingle woman has a part in the just released American movie Bride Wars.