A former doctor from Co Clare has gone on trial accused of defrauding the families of two terminally ill cancer patients by promising them a cure.

The Irish Examiner and Irish Times newspapers have been found in "technical contempt of court" for publishing articles which lead to the collapse of the Pascal Carmody trial in Ennis.

THE hospital where a Cavan schoolgirl died after a series of failures by medics and managers must be given the money to hire key personnel, the Medical Council has said.