More than 800 jobs are to be cut as part of a plan to slash budgets across health services in Cork and Kerry.

THE sister of a man living in an HSE-run facility for people with intellectual disability has expressed serious concern following an incident which left her brother with 22 staples in his head.

MORE than €12,000 was spent sprucing up a HSE residential unit for people with intellectual disabilities in the days leading up to a ministerial visit.

RESIDENTIAL homes and services for people with disabilities will finally begin to be inspected by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) “this time next year”, the minister of state with responsibility for the sector Kathleen Lynch has said.

MINISTER with responsibility for Disability Kathleen Lynch will tomorrow visit a locked residential institution in Cork city for people with intellectual disabilities.

FOLLOWING the arrest of IMF boss, Dominique Stauss-Kahn, the man behind the bailout of Ireland, I wonder if we will see Tonto racing to the rescue of the “Loan Arranger”.

THERE’S passion aplenty round Peter and Anna Warburton’s west Cork heartland.

MUNSTER’S biggest hospital was criticised by a coroner yesterday after an inquest into the death of a man from the deadly MRSA superbug.

Tommy Barker is charmed by the renovated success of Grove House.

THIS old farmhouse seems an anachronism, surrounded as it is by a 1960s estate in an inner suburb of Cork city.