The row over price hikes in registration fees for nurses has intensified, with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland accusing nursing unions of making confusing and misleading statements.

A murder trial has heard evidence from a neuropathologist that the deceased suffered an acute brain stem injury which he was unlikely to survive.

WRITER and broadcaster Nell McCafferty does not want to be depicted as curmudgeonly in recent dealings with medical staff at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

A Kildare man with a gambling debt who in "a moment of weakness" stole €9,500 from his employer has been given a one year suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Kildare man who, in "a moment of weakness", stole €9,500 from the company he worked for in order to pay off a gambling debt has been remanded on bail pending sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

SHANE WARNE was carried off the field on the shoulders of his team-mates yesterday after the incomparable star helped Australia inflict another soul-destroying Ashes defeat on England.