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

The family of nine-year-old Francis Sheridan is welcoming the Attorney General's decision to order a new inquiry into her death.

THE ADVERSE side-effects of pharmaceuticals is to be examined by a cross-party committee of politicians.

MORTALITY rates in Irish hospitals from the superbug, Clostridium Difficile, are higher than those from MRSA, the chief executive of the Health Services Executive revealed yesterday.

Obese Irish children could grow up with shorter life-expectancies than their parents, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

A MAN was left seriously injured after he was stabbed during a row at a Christmas party in County Meath.

Protesters have warned that they will step up their campaign for acute emergency services at Monaghan General Hospital if they don't get a top-level meeting with the Health Service Executive.

A 75-YEAR-OLD man who died due to lack of available care could have been treated at Cavan Hospital after all, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney last night revealed.

MEDICAL and nursing staff at a Tipperary hospital are to join with a local hospital action group to develop and fund a €50,000 blueprint on how their hospital should be developed.

WE, the undersigned, support the Rossport Five in their demand for the natural resources of Ireland to be used for the benefit of the Irish people, and for those same resources to be extracted in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

FAIR CITY stars, Oireachtas TDs, councillors and football legends squared upto each other yesterday in the name of charity.

The Government must establish a national agency to co-ordinate radically-improved services for suicide – the biggest killer of 15 to 24 year-olds, it was claimed today.

THE Government is on the verge of giving the go-ahead for a second terminal at Dublin Airport, Transport Minister Martin Cullen has indicated.

SURGICAL services at Cavan General Hospital are continuing to nosedive despite repeated recommendations for ways to improve the situation, the latest in a series of damning reports warns.

A SENIOR doctor at the hospital which admitted failing to take proper care of schoolgirl Frances Sheridan before she died has said problems identified in her case are repeated in all accident and emergency departments.

PUTTING a positive spin on Cavan General Hospital was not enough to convince people that patient care was as it should be at the hospital, Hospital Action TD Paudge Connolly said yesterday.

The suspension of two consultants at Cavan General Hospital will have a serious effect on medical services, it was claimed today.

THE Minister for Health is to set up an inquiry after two out of the three consultant surgeons at a midlands hospital were suspended without pay yesterday.

Two consultants surgeons at a hospital in Cavan have been suspended without pay, it emerged today.

CAMPAIGNERS calling for the restoration of full maternity services to Monaghan General Hospital have accused the Government of playing Russian roulette with the lives of mothers and babies.

A REPORT looking at ways to prevent the deaths of people denied access to healthcare services because of cuts in local hospitals is expected to be on the Health Minister’s desk in days.

THE hospital at the centre of the baby Bronagh Livingstone controversy is without out-of-hours maintenance cover in a dispute with electricians and technicians over on-call payments.

THE Departments of Health and Environment have clashing policies on Monaghan General Hospital, according to local independent TD Paudge Connolly.

THE family of tragic baby Bronagh Livingstone will be told tomorrow the reasons for the decisions surrounding her birth and death.

MORE people will die needlessly all over the country if crucial services at smaller regional hospitals are lost due to health cutbacks, campaigners in Monaghan said last night.

Fine Gael's Seymour Crawford has won the fifth and final seat in the Cavan-Monaghan constituency.

A full recount has been called for Cavan-Monaghan and will go ahead on Tuesday morning at 9am.