Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a missing 39 year-old man.

Cork City Council has approved the use of a former hospital as a third-level college.

The apparent impenetrability of Finnegans Wake ensures it is ignored by most readers. Alan O’Riordan meets a number of people hoping to address this neglect.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse permission for the National Children’s Hospital at Eccles Street, Dublin 1, has come as a bolt out of the blue to the development board of the National Paediatric Hospital, government ministers, the HSE and the Department of Health. I don’t like saying “I told you so.”

The Government has insisted it remains 100% committed to the long-awaited national children’s hospital as it ordered experts to explain why planners rejected the Mater site.

Plans for the new dedicated children’s hospital in Dublin have been refused, it has been confirmed.

Taking Sides by Brian Gallagher (O’Brien Press; €7.99) is a very apt title as the story is set in the early twenties when the newly independent Ireland rushed headlong into a bloody and divisive civil war.

THE proposed location for a new National Children’s Hospital is on a site belonging to the man-in-the-cupboard’s ‘alma Mater’ where he served his time as an accountant before becoming Taoiseach.

ONE of the more strident sayings in our period of construction mania between 2004 and 2007 was “build it and they will come”.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Health Minister Mary Harney today stressed controversial plans for a new National Children’s Hospital in Dublin will proceed.

SOME years ago, the Government developed a National Spatial Strategy.

The new Children's Hospital of Ireland will open in five years time.

JUDGE Patrick McCartan described the fraud as “a clever scheme of deceit”.

A consultant surgeon who defrauded almost €750,000 from insurance companies through a false breast cancer claim has been jailed for four years by Judge Patrick McCartan.

The Government today gave its full backing to the establishment of the new National Children’s Hospital beside Dublin’s Mater Hospital.

Management at the Mater Hospital have welcomed the Government decision to locate the new National Paediatric Hospital on the Mater site at Eccles Street in Dublin.

Nurses worked under protest at one of the country’s main hospitals today to highlight the dangers they face over parking problems.

THE Taoiseach has hit out at residents’ organisations who object to the siting of hostels for the homeless in their neighbourhoods.

MOTHER-of-three Lilly Wallace, 52, had to leave her home and family for six terrifying weeks to get radium treatment for colon cancer.