Cork third-level student Margaret O’Donovan is UniSlim’s Youth Ambassador after shedding 4st 7lbs so she could buy the clothes she wanted for her 18th birthday.

A decision on the location of the proposed national children’s hospital will be made in the next number of weeks, according to Health Minister Dr James Reilly.

We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.