The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has axed the committee that signed off on a gold-plated deal that could have cost the union €25m once its chief executive retired.

Just how much Health Minister James Reilly knew of the deal behind a potential €25m pension pot for a union chief will form part of a review into the controversy.

AS THE Rugby World Cup gets under way, one of Ireland’s leading authorities on sports injuries is spearheading a drive to highlight the dangers of concussion in rugby by setting up an expert group to examine the effects, and through a TV advertising campaign.

ONE of the Irish squad at Murrayfield tomorrow once sparred with David Haye, but these days prefers curing pain. Michael Moynihan spoke to Irish team medic Eanna Falvey.

A GROUP of raucous teenagers were stunned into silence yesterday by a road safety show.

ALBERT Einstein’s defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” It is a fitting description of our drug strategy in this country.

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has hit out at the HSE for not insisting that newly-recruited consultants have completed their higher specialist training.

DOCTORS at a Tipperary hospital depend on a weekday-only taxi service to transport MRSA swabs for analysis to Limerick.

THE Irish coach, Eddie O’Sullivan, is looking forward to welcoming back stalwarts Malcolm O’Kelly, Simon Easterby and Frankie Sheahan for the autumn international series of games.

PAUL O’CONNELL has been named Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Player of the Year.

THERE will be mixed emotions for Brian O’Brien when the final whistle sounds at Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

NIGEL MELVILLE might have known the afternoon was going to be different when he heard the Latin.

Minister of State Noel Ahern, who has special responsible for the government’s drugs strategy, is seriously considering the possibility of providing consumption rooms for heroine addicts, following discussions with his German counterpart.

Accident and emergency units in Dublin remain in chaos today as the city's main hospitals struggle to cope with a fresh overcrowding crisis.

The Irish Medical Organisation is due to debate a timetable for possible strike action by junior doctors at its annual conference in Killarney later today.

Junior doctors are threatening to go on strike again over continued long working hours.