Public condemnation of the Irish Cancer Society for scrapping a financial hardship scheme for cancer patients led Health Minister Leo Varadkar to urge people to continue supporting the charity.

A woman who had minor elective surgery at a private hospital in Dublin died less than two weeks later, an inquest has heard.

A man who slipped on algae on the steps of a pier as he was about to go for a swim has been awarded €59,000 in High Court damages.

Dublin City Council is to sue bankrupt developer Thomas McFeely and others over what it claims are “defective” apartments at the Priory Hall complex.

The East-West Interconnector was officially opened yesterday at Batterstown, Co Meath, where the Irish national electricity grid joins the interconnector.

Ireland's top judges will rule today if a former Sinn Féin hunger striker-turned-property tycoon should go back behind bars for breaking court orders.

Tom McFeely's bid to be declared bankrupt will be before the High Court later.

A DOCTOR who failed to record the removal of a mole in a cancer fatality case has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

A DOCTOR is before a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry over the care he gave to a man who died of cancer 15 months after a mole was surgically removed from his back.

THREE teachers who survived a plane crash in Thailand touched down on home soil yesterday for an emotional reunion with family and friends.

Three teachers who survived a plane crash in Thailand touched down on home soil today for an emotional reunion with family and friends.

Young volunteers are the future of Ireland’s efforts in tackling the poverty faced by children in the developing world.

A FIFTEEN-year-old girl who died in a crash over the weekend was struck by a car driven by a 23-year-old man later arrested on suspicion of drink driving.

The Green Party has postponed its pre-Dáil meeting after the party’s general secretary Dermot Hamilton died suddenly today.

A date for your diary. Midleton Food and Drink Festival September 4-5, 2004.

The man who died in a road traffic accident in Co Wicklow yesterday evening has been named as Michael Walsh from Channel road, Rush, Co Dublin.

The Flood Tribunal has been told that Ray Burke was presented with a bag of money that probably contained £60,000 in late 1986.