Call 11890 Ltd, the Irish Directory enquiries company, has today signed a multi-million euro contract with UPC Business.

GOVERNMENT representatives will meet with trade unions to try to clarify aspects of the public sector pay and reform proposals prior to crucial ballots later this month.

THE recent report from the Inspector of Mental Health Services described “the dilapidated, desolate and depressing condition of wards in some of our mental health hospitals... ” This has been the case for many years.

Disabled people suffer the most discrimination in Irish society, it emerged today.

CONCERNS were raised by a state agency that teenagers needing mental health services are being detained by court order in a locked facility simply because they can’t access help elsewhere.

THE controversial PPARS payroll system for the health services is still costing up to €1.5 million a month, it was claimed yesterday.

A new regulator is to be appointed by the Government to protect the rights of house hunters.

A senior garda officer was today appointed to re-examine the investigation into the murder of a Dundalk forestry worker 30 years ago.

THE Government has been accused of “starving Mallow General Hospital of adequate funding”, according to volunteers helping to support the facility financially.

THE Heath Services Executive is investigating the cases of all 95 patients who died in the Leas Cross nursing home in north Dublin over the past three years.

A staff member at St Mary's Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, has been removed from duty following the death of an elderly man.

WE, as social workers working with older people, welcome the decision to introduce an independent inspectorate for nursing homes.

TEAGASC advisers around the country helped and assisted more than 60,000 farmers with their Single Farm Payment application forms, it has been revealed.

THE father of the 28-year-old woman who drowned her two daughters before killing herself says improvements to suicide prevention services in Wexford announced yesterday are just too little, too late.

Hospital consultants tonight voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in an escalation of the dispute over medical insurance cover.

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GARDAÍ are investigating allegations of vote-rigging in Tipperary during the last local elections, where up to 300 people could have cast falsified votes.