Two taxi companies each received in excess of €1m from the Health Service Executive as part of a €26m total pay-out for patient and staff transport in 2010.

BUILDING will start this year on an isolation unit at the main treatment centre for adult cystic fibrosis sufferers in Dublin, the Health Service Executive announced yesterday.

A YOUNG man suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) yesterday pleaded for a better quality of life than the one experienced by his older sister.