An all-Ireland soccer team should take on England every two years to raise money for children, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

The national children’s hospital proposed for St James’s in Dublin could run into IT and planning trouble but the Government has insisted it is the best choice of location.

Some 19 years after a national children’s hospital was first mooted, and three years after the first deadline to build it was missed, St James’s has become the project’s site.

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but the internet has put paid to that mantra where Prince Harry is concerned.

A change in Dutch tax rates has resulted in Guinness owner — Diageo — writing off €624 million in deferred tax assets.

Award-winning singer Paolo Nutini revealed today he plans to play until he drops when he toasts the birth of Guinness.

VITAL reforms in Ireland’s mental health services will not exist for another 40 years because of the Government’s ongoing failure to adequately fund the service, medics have claimed.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has called for an investigation by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the Government’s controversial hospital co-location project.

A FINAL decision on the sale of the historic Guinness brewery site in Dublin is expected to be announced later this week.

A BOOK of fairytales by Harry Potter author JK Rowling has fetched an astonishing £1.95 million (€2.72m) at an auction — up to 65 times the original asking price.

WITH the delivery of the national cancer treatment plan now three years behind schedule, many cancer patients have simply given up any hope of receiving life-saving therapy in their community, Labour’s Liz McManus claimed yesterday.

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.

ANOTHER series of measures aimed at improving the ongoing crisis at the country’s A&Es were announced last night on the eve of the broadcast of a potentially explosive RTÉ programme on A&E services.

Six adults and a young child were treated for minor injuries after an ambulance overturned in a collision, it was confirmed tonight.