HE has been giddy with anticipation all week. Ever since he got the green light from the medical staff in the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dun Laoghaire to go to Croke Park this evening, Dessie Fitzgerald can scarcely think of anything else.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has today told children’s hospitals in Dublin that they must work together to save money to protect existing services.

AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman who fell out of a hospital harness onto her head died of natural causes five days later, an inquest heard yesterday.