Separate knife attacks over Halloween night in Dublin left one man dead and another two fighting for their lives.

More than 87,000 people have lost their medical cards in the past year as the numbers eligible for free healthcare decreased by almost 5%.

Five family doctor practices each received HSE payments totalling over €600,000 in 2012, including two practices that received payments in excess of €700,000.

GARDAÍ are increasingly concerned at the safety of a man beaten and abducted in broad daylight.

A SENIOR medical officer, who was unlawfully sacked by the HSE because of the Government’s moratorium on recruitment, is to be re-engaged and given a back pay and pension package of about €100,000.

THE HSE plans to move some city centre social work services for troubled children to an industrial estate in Blanchardstown.

A 100-YEAR-OLD woman was ordered to hand over her medical card in a letter from the HSE which she received late last month, it has emerged.

GARDAÍ were last night gathering information on an Irish man arrested yesterday by Spanish police in connection with the discovery of two bodies, thought to be those of missing Dublin criminals.

GARDAÍ yesterday described as “very significant” a sting operation on Monday which resulted in the arrest of two major criminals.

IT WAS a “few awful minutes” that snuffed out the life of a young mother and raised questions about where society was going.

THE Department of Justice has stepped up moves to deport immigrants whose marriages to Irish citizens have broken down.

Data Electronics Group, the indigenous carrier provider of Colocation, Hosting and Managed Services in Ireland has announced that it has acquired Inflow Ireland.