A girl who suffered severe internal injuries after being crushed by a car had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.

Up to 20 people who underwent surgery at Beaumont Hospital could be at risk of contracting CJD.

Plans will be made to transfer jockey JT McNamara to a hospital nearer his family in Ireland.

A doctor has told an inquest into the death of a young boy that there was a delay in starting dialysis at a hospital as the boy’s father had not brought the dialysis machine with him.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a 53-year-old man in Drogheda today.

Ireland’s health watchdog has acknowledged that billions of euro worth of cutbacks to the health service over the coming years could cause another hospital crisis like that seen at Tallaght.

ONE of the country’s most infamous criminals had cosmetic surgery carried out on a scar on his lip at the expense of the state while in prison.

MEDICAL staff need to be trained in handling patients deliberately simulating illnesses, according to researchers, following a study of patients with Munchausen Syndrome presenting in hospitals.

PATIENTS embroiled in the Tallaght Hospital X-ray review scandal have called on the HSE to immediately confirm whether the crisis is being repeated in any other facility.

Fine Gael is calling for an independent investigation into the blunder which saw 58,000 x-rays go unreported at Tallaght hospital.

Planning permission has been granted for a co-located hospital on the site of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

The army bomb disposal team was called in to assist in the disposal of a quantity of chemicals at a Dublin hospital this morning.

A new €5m facility for diagnosing cancer has been opened at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

Former Boyzone star Ronan Keating and his wife Yvonne are celebrating the birth of their third child.

A suspected case of new variant CJD, the human form of Mad Cow’s disease has been reported at a Dublin hospital.

The mystery disease that's baffling doctors around the globe may have arrived in Ireland.

The Eastern Regional Health Board has said it hopes to open one of the wards which was closed due to the ‘winter vomiting bug’ outbreak in Beaumont hospital.