An independent investigation into concerns that ambulances are arriving dangerously late to call-outs because of chronic service shortages has been brought forward three months due to the serious issues involved.

The HSE’s repeated failure to meet life-saving ambulance target times is set to be examined by the country’s independent medical watchdog.

Management at Letterkenny General Hospital report the Emergency Department is continuing to expand its services following last month's flooding.

Patients on five floors at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry were evacuated because of a fire on the roof last night.

Scientists in Cork are working with counterparts in the North to develop a glove which could transform the way arthritis is diagnosed and treated.

Outbreaks of deadly bacteria that claimed the lives of four babies in Northern Ireland hospitals are now officially under control, the region's Health Minister has said.

A deadly infection which killed four babies in the North has been discovered in the taps at a hospital.

The bug responsible for the deaths of four babies in Belfast and Derry has been found in another of the North's hospitals.

The parents of one of four babies who died in outbreaks of a killer infection in hospitals in Derry and Belfast have called for a public inquiry.

All babies transferred to other units from two hospitals in the North where four infants died are to be screened for the killer infection, public health authorities said.

Staff are to carry out a deep clean at a hospital’s neonatal room after an infection killed three babies, and infected four others.

A teenager from Donegal has died after he was found with serious head injuries in Derry yesterday.

Two houses were targeted by a crowd of about 20 youths in a petrol bomb attack in Derry, police said today.

An ambulance crew which left a neo-natal patient to hospital was kept waiting there for six and a half hours before she was moved elsewhere, it was revealed today.

More than 300 jobs are to go by April as part of Northern Ireland Water’s efficiency drive, the company confirmed tonight.

A nursing home has been criticised after the death of an elderly woman who’d been under its care, an inquest in Coleraine heard today.

A Northern Ireland man who plunged to his death while climbing a mountain in New Zealand had told his family how lucky he was to have escaped the Asian tsunami, it emerged tonight.

A MAN who was seriously injured on a Norwegian fishing vessel more than 150 miles off the west coast had to be rescued by helicopter yesterday.

THE number of pedestrians killed in road traffic accidents this year rose to 54 after separate weekend tragedies.

Rogue republicans were today blamed for a bomb attack which killed a construction worker at a Derry army base.

A 40-year-old man was shot by a soldier in the living room of a flat on Bloody Sunday as he watched events with his wife, the Saville Inquiry heard today.