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St Patrick's Day parades in Ireland should be postponed to stop the spread of the Covid-19, a virologist and leading influenza expert is urging.

Delegates to the Clare GAA Convention have given their unanimous support to long-standing secretary Pat Fitzgerald after it was revealed that the war between the top table of the county board and alleged online trolls is now the subject of a Garda investigation.

It was the worst ever July for hospital overcrowding, with 9,439 admitted patients waiting for a bed, according to the latest monthly analysis from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Hospital overcrowding reached record levels for the month of July this year, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

9,439 hospital patients were left waiting for beds over the past month, the highest ever number recorded in July.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has recommended that the HSE pay a public health nurse €10,000 for the way it handled a formal complaint against the nurse by the father of a disabled girl.

Nurses are to stage a number of lunchtime protests outside hospitals around the country next week over staffing shortages and overcrowding at emergency departments.

There is a warning overcrowded emergency departments and staff shortages are putting patients at risk.

A man has appeared in court accused of raping a 14-year-old girl who is alleged to have been attacked by two different offenders on the same night.

A man is due to appear in a British court charged with raping a 14-year-old girl who was attacked twice in the same night.

A man has been charged with rape after a 14-year-old girl was attacked twice on the same night in the UK.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) in Cavan General Hospital will stage a lunchtime protest tomorrow.

Nurses at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, will continue a work-to-rule over staff shortages despite a resumption of talks today at the Workplace Relations Commission.

So now that the deal between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is more or less done and dusted, it’s time for the independents to have their days in the limelight.

Is it true that when the FIFA executives were arrested in Switzerland and the United States, last week, they threw themselves onto the ground and rolled around pretending to be injured?

Doctors and nurses repeatedly highlighted the risk to patients posed by theatre staff shortages at Cavan General Hospital where four babies died in the last two-and-a-half years, including a newborn earlier this week.

Perhaps it’s time for Michael Martin to force his detractors to put up or shut up.

Management at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has agreed to increase the number of nurses and make more beds available, to alleviate overcrowding in the Emergency Department.

The Labour Relations Commission are intervening to try and prevent strike action at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, from going ahead.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will ask the HSE to employ more nurses and create more step-down beds at one of the country’s busiest hospitals when it meets with the HSE’s assistant national director of acute hospitals, Angela Fitzgerald, tomorrow.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is calling for a strategic plan to alleviate overcrowding and staff shortages at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

Nurses who are members of the INMO will hold a lunchtime protest today outside Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

Nurses in the emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda have invited the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar to join them for one of their 12-hour shifts.

A second baby death is under investigation at Cavan General Hospital after a newborn delivered on Tuesday died yesterday.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is calling for disaster protocol to be invoked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, due to severe overcrowding.

A baby who died after being transferred from Cavan General Hospital to a neonatal unit in Dublin is understood to have been the firstborn of the couple involved.

Talks at the Labour Relations Commission between unions representing health workers in the North East and HSE management have been adjourned this evening.

Unions representing health workers in the North East are meeting HSE management at the Labour Relations Commission today.

Co Galway firm Curley Furniture and Carpets Ltd collapsed owing €3.8m to the Ulster Bank and €600,000 to the Bank of Scotland, figures show.

AS a fan of RTÉ radio and television for over 40 years, I am getting fed up listening to RTÉ presenters, constantly apologising for Prime Time Investigates.

THIRTY prison officers who work at Cloverhill prison in west Dublin have tested positive for latent TB.

THE Irish Nurses Organisation say the situation at Cavan General Hospital is now at “crisis stage” following an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug and strike action by agency nurses employed at the hospital.

The HSE is due to meet unions involved with staff at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, Co. Meath, today.

The HSE has announced that all acute and emergency surgery will cease at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan with immediate effect.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says Our Lady's Hospital in Navan will be "effectively shut down" if the HSE orders it to stop performing surgery.

Plans to end overnight A&E services at two hospitals in Nenagh and Ennis were today denounced as dangerous.

A Dublin man accused of kicking another man to death in a derelict mansion, then burning the body after a day drinking in a city park, claimed that he didn’t usually drink during the day.

A hospital consultant’s offer to give up about €36,000 of his annual pay to employ a midwife in one of the country’s busiest maternity units demonstrated the desperate state of hospital staffing, it was claimed tonight.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a road accident in Co Laois in the early hours of this morning in which a 53-year-old man was killed.