SECURITY will be stepped up at Munster’s largest hospital after a man threatened to jump from a tower crane on site.

MORE than three-quarters of Southern Health Board (SHB) staff suffered from psychological or emotional stress last year, according to the board’s annual report.

THE threat of a strike

THOUSANDS of children have been waiting for braces and corrective dental treatment for more than four years because of a critical shortage of orthodontists, it has emerged.