A local authority has expressed a “strategic interest” in acquiring a vacant HSE-owned hospital.

TWO teenage boys have died and two more are in hospital with serious injuries just 24 hours after a bank holiday weekend that saw five people lose their lives due to the carnage on Irish roads.

Substitute Geoff Horsfield scored an injury-time winner to virtually guarantee Premiership survival for Birmingham and send local rivals West Brom closer to the relegation trapdoor.