SURGICAL patients infected with the MRSA superbug spend on average an extra 18 days in hospital compared with patients who undergo surgery but are MRSA-free.

Fine Gael has said the death of a mother of three in a toilet in Dublin's Mater Hospital this week is more evidence of how the current health service is failing the public.

WHAT Enda Kenny unveiled yesterday was entirely new, entirely surprising, entirely different from what we expected, a radical change from the last Dáil.