If this doesn’t make you want to grab your friends and jump in the car for an Irish road trip, nothing will.

If this doesn't make you want to grab your friends and jump in the car for an Irish road trip, nothing will.

Patients suffering as a result of self-harm or suicide attempts should be provided with an alternative access to hospital than the general Accident and Emergency system.

Police are investigating after a beautician attached hair extensions to a customer’s head using super strength glue.

A patient recovering from a brain haemorrhage who had to spend hours on a hospital trolley in a vending machine corridor has called on the Taoiseach and minister for health to visit the overcrowded emergency department.

Your spoiler-free guide to what to look out for on the box tonight.

In part two of our series on the social life of young adults, we visit three more cities. In Cork, the girls are refused entry to a nightclub; they are too young. In London, students joke about how much they drink, while in Toronto, two fake IDs can be bought very easily for just $50

The once prim Ellie Goulding has gone for a brash, edgy sound on new album Halcyon. But don’t mention the new haircut, says Ed Power

AN AMBULANCE driver who watched his wife die while he pleaded for help for her in an accident and emergency room has secured €600,000 in settlement of his damage claim against the Health Service Executive, the High Court heard yesterday.

No matter how well planned it is, no matter what vested interests are tackled, healthcare is like a virus which constantly morphs into a form resistant to the most recent prescription.

DOCTORS are to be trained in the mid-west for the first time at University of Limerick.

HERE’S an actual case history based on recent experience. This story is repeated hundreds of times every day in our health service.

Up to 11,000 people who randomly harm themselves visit Accident & Emergency clinics every year, it emerged tonight.

MEDICAL and nursing staff at a Tipperary hospital are to join with a local hospital action group to develop and fund a €50,000 blueprint on how their hospital should be developed.

A DISTURBED patient put a cut throat razor to a nurse's throat and dragged her from the ward in the latest assault on hospital staff.