The hospital a first-time mum chooses for the delivery of her child is likely to have a huge bearing on whether the infant is born naturally or by caesarean section, according to new birth statistics.

The State’s drug regulation body was alerted about a blood-testing kit error two months before a public notice was issued this week.

South Tipperary General Hospital has been criticised over its hygiene standards with a report from the health watchdog claiming that some ward areas and equipment were mostly unclean.

A husband has demanded an inquest into the death of his wife who lost her life after giving birth to their first child.

A middle-aged man found dead with his two children spent their last night alive visiting their sick mother in hospital.

MORE than 1,000 hospital beds are closed in facilities across the country and a further 630 are unavailable to patients due to delayed discharges of treated people.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Fianna Fáil must resolve the difficulties that led to two TDs resigning the party whip.

A Fianna Fáil back-bencher has resigned the party whip in a row over cancer services at Sligo General Hospital.

NURSES at Sligo General Hospital have put off this week’s planned strike in a row over staffing levels.

Nurses will today stage an all-out strike at Sligo General Hospital as a dispute over staffing levels escalates.

Some 600 nurses at Sligo General Hospital have voted in favour of strike action, claiming staff shortages have hit critical levels.

IT WAS the banner that read “Death by Geography” that best summed up how about 250 people from the north-west of the country felt yesterday when they protested outside Leinster House against the planned downgrading of cancer treatment services at Sligo General Hospital.

HUNDREDS of people are expected to protest against the planned downgrading of cancer treatment services at Sligo General Hospital outside Leinster House in Dublin today.

A 23-year-old man has died following a crash in Co Sligo.

Sinn Féin activists are to protest at 11 hospitals today against government plans to allow private health centres to be built on the same sites as public units.

Two people have died in a crash on the Sligo to Manorhamiliton Road in Co Leitrim this morning.

A MAN was fighting for his life last night after a drive-by shooting in Sligo.

Student nurses in Sligo have balloted overwhelmingly in favour of protest action following a rejection of their claims for a paid meal allowance.

Three of the people caught in a Sligo housefire managed to escape the blaze which killed three others.