Professor Anthony Staines of the Department of Nursing and Human Sciences in DCU has called for a more complete system of reporting on services in the health system.

A former psychic has been convicted by a jury of the theft and money laundering of €1.6m.

The trial of a former psychic charged with money laundering has heard the accused “is not Walter Mitty” and that he created fake documents that “conned real people out of real money in real life”.

A trucker told gardaí it was an accident after he was charged with dangerous driving causing death in connection with a fatal collision between a heavy goods vehicle and a pedestrian in Dublin.

The senior barrister who led the prosecution team that secured the conviction of 50-year-old Patrick Quirke for the murder of Bobby ‘Mr Moonlight’ Ryan received more than €155,000 in fees for his work in the case.

A man has gone on trial charged with deceiving five men into transferring approximately €1.765m total into bank accounts he controlled.

Access to health services based on need should be a constitutional right, the Irish Patients' Association has urged.

A garda investigating the disappearance of Bobby Ryan made a note saying, "Mary Lowry had his head melted," but he couldn't remember who made the comment, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The injuries to Bobby Ryan's body were not caused by debris falling on the skeleton when gardaí removed the concrete lid covering the tank in which the body was found, a senior garda has told the Central Criminal Court.

The injuries to Bobby Ryan's body were not caused by debris that fell on the skeleton when gardaí removed the concrete lid of the tank in which the body was found, a senior garda has told the Central Criminal Court.

Mary Lowry's son has described murder accused Pat Quirke as "in control most of the time, grumpy some of the time" and said he went around his mother's farm "as if he kind of owned the place".

Fingerprints on items taken from Bobby Ryan's van after he went missing did not match the accused man Patrick Quirke, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A forensic anthropologist has told the Patrick Quirke murder trial that he identified human and animal bones and an animal's tooth found in the tank alongside Bobby Ryan's body.

“He died ...due to a reaction to medication it was well known he was allergic to," the family said in their statement.

A homeless man has been sentenced to five years in prison for robbing an elderly Dublin couple of cash that they had just withdrawn to pay for a family holiday.

Latest: The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has criticised the failure of some hospital consultants to comply with their contracts.

Strategists have rushed to slash their pound forecasts since the UK voted to leave the EU, but one fund manager is bucking the anti-sterling trend.

Irish Water is to work with Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) on rehabilitation works on a river the utility polluted last year, causing the death of more than 3,000 fish.

Woman admits lying on lone parent’s allowance form but insists the case is not ‘all about the money’

Nothing in the environmental impact statement (EIS) accompanying Indaver Ireland’s planning application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy adequately explains the health impact it could have, according to a specialist in public health.

David Drumm will face two trials, one in 2017 and one in 2018, over alleged offences committed during his time as CEO of Anglo Irish Bank.

Dublin District Court has been told that since former Anglo chief executive David Drumm went to America in 2009 he “engaged in a careful and considered and perfectly lawful attempt to ensure that this day never came”.

A number of healthcare decisions made by previous governments were incoherent, contradictory, and incompatible with a strong outcome, said HSE director general Tony O’Brien.

Two former Anglo Irish Bank executives convicted of conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by Revenue did not receive a fair trial, the Court of Appeal was told yesterday.

A Co Meath insurance broker who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud has been ordered to perform 240 hours unpaid work in the community in addition to a four-year suspended sentence.

A man who allowed his bank account to be used in a Electric Picnic tickets scam is to be sentenced in January.

The Court of Appeal has today adjourned sentencing a Cork man who was four times over the limit when he crashed his BMW into a roundabouut killing a woman and paralysing her friend in Skibbereen two-and-a-half years ago.

Newstalk’s former money doctor, who carried out a €109,000 life insurance fraud, has been given a four-year suspended sentence and ordered to perform unpaid work in the community.

Plans to financially penalise hospitals that do not cut waiting times have been branded “simplistic” because they do not take account of staff shortages.

A seven-year sentence imposed on a man who was four times over the limit when he crashed his BMW into a roundabout killing a female passenger and paralysing her friend was “out of line” with other sentences for dangerous driving, the Court of Appeal has found.

A man who took over €27,000 from friends and acquaintances by selling them bogus package holidays has been spared a prison sentence today.

A man who was four times over the alcohol limit when he crashed his BMW into a roundabout killing a woman and paralysing her friend has moved to appeal his seven-year prison sentence.

A soccer player who broke an opponent’s nose after he headbutted him in an off-the-ball incident has avoided a jail term.

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her 11-year-old daughter in 2012.

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her daughter in Co. Offaly.

Dublin GAA star Jonny Cooper was asleep and defenceless as he was repeatedly stabbed in the face and neck in a frenzied knife attack, a court has heard.

Dublin GAA star Jonny Cooper was asleep and defenceless as he was repeatedly stabbed in the face and neck in a frenzied knife attack, a court has heard.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has been granted legal aid for his upcoming trial on charges of failing to disclose loans from another bank.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick may apply for free legal aid for his upcoming trial on charges of failing to disclose loans from another bank, a court has heard.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s has been dismissed after a trial at Cork District Court.

A 43-year-old man made no reply when he was charged with the murder of his partner Audrey Fitzpatrick’s son, Dean, who died following a stabbing incident last year, a court has heard.

Republic of Ireland and Celtic football star Anthony Stokes has appeared in court accused of attacking a man in a Dublin nightclub last year.