FORMER heart surgeon Maurice Neligan has withdrawn his support for the building of the new national children’s hospital on a site in the centre of Dublin.

IN A sense, Irish politics has gone into suspended animation. Bertie Ahern has been replaced as leader of Fianna Fáil but he remains as Taoiseach for over three weeks. This kind of hiatus effectively happens just about every decade after an election in which the people decide to change government.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney would have resigned or been sacked from her position if she was in Government in any other country, according to one of the most distinguished medical practitioners in Ireland Dr Maurice Neligan.

A 31-year-old nurse whose body was found in apartment in Dublin was stabbed a number of times, a court was told today.

A 25-year-old man is due to appear in court this morning, in connection with the death of Sara Neligan.

AN Bord Pleanála has turned down a controversial plan to build Ireland’s first anaerobic waste digester, much to the delight of a small community in Co Cork.

THE new president of the Garda Representative Association, John Egan, exhibited incredible insensitivity in essentially issuing a threat to his political bosses. “We are waiting in the long grass for them,” he warned.