"I just wish I could return to my old life. The one where the love of my life was still alive and we were expecting our first child. My life after my wife’s death has been a never-ending nightmare."

A mental health nurse who shared the confidential medical notes of a psychiatric patient with her boss over a dispute with another nurse was yesterday the subject of a disciplinary hearing.

A 35 year old pregnant woman died due to a tear in the abdomen during the course of laparoscopic surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, an inquest has heard. 

TWO fixed-term lecturers are to have redundancy payments trebled after the Labour Court found they were discriminated against by the Department of Education when it closed a Dublin college last year.