A PATHOLOGY expert has reassured women that a needlestick test used in cancer diagnosis — criticised in the report into the misdiagnosis of Rebecca O’Malley — is effective when appropriately used.

A letter and a phone call received by a now retired insurance company staff member set off a major garda investigation into an alleged €700,000 insurance fraud by a consultant surgeon and his wife.

PATIENTS at a Dublin hospital are being asked to “queue” at home for a bed rather than in an overcrowded A&E department.