A stroke unit due to open in Cork last month after two years of delays will remain closed until at least September.

The Minister for Health James Reilly has said no acute hospital will close as a result of the reorganisation of hospitals.

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.

HOSPITALS are still being gripped by an emergency department crisis, with more than 400 people on trolleys every day on average over the past fortnight.

THE number of hospital beds lost due to closures and delayed discharges is the equivalent of three large hospitals, according to figures from the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) and the Health Service Executive (HSE).

IN recent weeks I have read and heard many discussions on our maternity services, which are in a deplorable condition.

SEVERE overcrowding in some A&E units pushed patient trolley numbers to an all-time high of 455 yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO).

THE notice announcing the death of Patrick Walsh said he had gone peacefully but if that is so, the retired farmer’s last moments contrast starkly with the strife his untimely passing has left behind.

COMMUNITIES in Monaghan are pleading with the Health Service Executive to drop plans to downgrade smaller hospitals following the death of a two-week-old baby who had to endure a two-hour ambulance journey to Dublin because there was no local neo-natal intensive care unit.

A SENIOR doctor at the hospital which admitted failing to take proper care of schoolgirl Frances Sheridan before she died has said problems identified in her case are repeated in all accident and emergency departments.

THE family of tragic baby Bronagh Livingstone will be told tomorrow the reasons for the decisions surrounding her birth and death.

It has been confirmed that one man has died and two others have been injured, one seriously, in the explosion at the Lakelands Dairy plant in Killeshandra, Co Cavan.