The HSE has inadvertently highlighted how it manages upcoming negative news after accidently including the Irish Examiner in a group email to senior officials.

A mother whose baby was stillborn after she was transferred 114km, from a Kerry hospital to Cork, in an ambulance that did not have the necessary blood on board, has been awarded €170,000 damages by the High Court.

“I lost a son — he died completely unnecessarily.”

WAVING their pikes, they protested outside the gates of Dublin Castle in a scene reminiscent of the Year of the French.

PROTESTERS demanding more EU recognition for the Irish language outside Dublin Castle yesterday couldn’t give a focal.