“We are making this an election issue. We will not tolerate the cuts. We simply can’t. Already the service is not sufficient."

A woman who went in to hospital for a routine day procedure but ended up losing eight pints of blood when an artery was torn has been awarded over €855,000 by the High Court, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

THE leader of a gang who organised a savage attack on the former owner of two massage parlours and threatened him for money in the name of the IRA was jailed yesterday for five years.

THE former owner of two massage parlours claimed yesterday he was dragged from his bedroom and severely beaten and his family were threatened in the name of the IRA to get him to make cash payments of up to 12,700.