SEVERAL of the HSE’s most senior managers received over €7 million in lump sum retirement packages as the economic crisis began to unfold — and have been given another €7.5m in pensions since leaving.

THE Government spends 20 times more combating disease among farm animals than tackling breast cancer among women, it emerged yesterday.

THE 200 job cuts in the health services in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, covered by the Western Health Board, are still on the cards.