TODAY’S heart-rending report on the tragic death of an 85-year-old woman, who died following hospital treatment for a broken wrist, is yet another damning indictment of Ireland’s health system and particularly of management procedures at one of the country’s biggest hospitals.

LAST week’s report into the death of pensioner Pat Joe Walsh at Monaghan General Hospital has been dismissed as ‘a mishmash of prejudice and opinion’ by campaigners.

THE grave personal tragedy of 76-year-old Pat Joe Walsh’s death in Monaghan General Hospital almost a year ago year goes to the heart of much that is wrong with the Irish health service.

The Health Service Executive has reportedly received the findings of the inquiry into the death of Pat Joe Walsh at Monaghan General Hospital last year.