THE notice announcing the death of Patrick Walsh said he had gone peacefully but if that is so, the retired farmer’s last moments contrast starkly with the strife his untimely passing has left behind.

HOSPITAL campaigners have refused to be reassured by the ordering of an internal report into the latest death of a patient denied treatment at Monaghan General Hospital.

COMMUNITIES in Monaghan are pleading with the Health Service Executive to drop plans to downgrade smaller hospitals following the death of a two-week-old baby who had to endure a two-hour ambulance journey to Dublin because there was no local neo-natal intensive care unit.

A YOUNG man with a suspected brain illness, who spent five days in A&E waiting for a scan, eventually fled the hospital fearing conditions there were making him feel worse.

Sinn Fein's Caoimhghin O'Caolain is calling for the full restoration of obstetric services to Monaghan General hospital.

A garda has been injured after being hit by a car, which failed to stop at a checkpoint that was set-up because of the foot and mouth scare.