THE relocation project for a learning disability unit in Carlow has got underway, with a sod-turning ceremony on the grounds of St Dympna’s Hospital.

NURSES at a home for intellectually disabled people where knee-high weeds clog recreation areas and plaster is peeling from walls have begun protest action to improve conditions.

TODAY’S litany of under-spending by Government departments is enough to inflict apoplexy on long-suffering patients in hospital waiting lists or languishing on trollies in those crowded accident and emergency wards.