ONE of the biggest challenges for people fitted with prosthetic limbs is getting used to the absence of a sense of feeling, an Irish medical expert said yesterday.

A SCARCITY of beds for patients in need of rehabilitation is inflating waiting lists and exacerbating the acute beds crisis, according to the chairwoman of the medical board at the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH).

A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has acquitted a second Dublin student who was accused of an assault which has resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.