A senior doctor who treated a woman who died from multi-organ failure days after a caesarean section has said a 12-hour delay in reviewing her first set of blood tests was a mistake.

Gardaí in Donegal are appealing for witnesses to a crash yesterday which claimed the life of an 82-year-old woman.

The HSE has agreed to pay €790,000 and “unreservedly” apologised to the family of a 29-year-old Indian woman who became seriously ill in Sligo Regional Hospital at the time of the birth of her first child, but died eight days later.

Gardaí are trying to trace the final movements of 67-year-old Eugene Gillespie before he was “brutally murdered” by burglars at his home in Sligo town.

A seven-week-old baby girl who died at Sligo General Hospital earlier this week is due to be laid to rest today.

BRIAN Cowen faced a deepening leadership crisis last night as Fianna Fáil TDs expressed despair at his failure to hold the party together.

Nursing unions and HSE representatives are due at the Labour Court today in an attempt to resolve a dispute about staff shortages at Sligo General Hospital.

Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Sligo today in protest over the health service.

Hundreds of protesters are to picket the Dáil today over controversial plans to abolish vital cancer services in the north-west.

A Traveller who was allegedly shot at by a gunman at a family funeral in Sligo has claimed the man "pulled out a gun from inside his pants" and fired, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A member of the crew of stricken Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi died in Sligo General Hospital late last night.