HOSPITAL consultants say a Health Service Executive (HSE) directive that all patients at Monaghan General Hospital needing emergency surgery must be transferred immediately to Cavan General Hospital is unworkable.

THE report into the death of 75-year-old Patrick Joe Walsh was an insult to his memory, independent TD Paudge Connolly declared yesterday.

An independent report into the death of a 75-year-old man at Monaghan General Hospital last October is due to be published later today.

CAMPAIGNERS for improved services at Monaghan General Hospital have expressed hope that an official report into the death of an elderly farmer at the hospital last year will result in major changes to health services in the north-east.

ONE of the last patients to be discharged from Monaghan General Hospital’s acute surgical ward at the weekend was the elderly mother of the head of the group campaigning against the continual downgrading of the hospital.