AN Employment Appeals Tribunal into alleged bullying at one of the country’s largest disability agencies was scrapped yesterday after it emerged one of the Tribunal panel is related to a witness.

THE family of a former Leas Cross patient have rejected the terms of reference of an inquiry into his death.

Long-time Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak today pays an official visit to Ireland.

When “value for money” cuts are imposed arbitrarily and without any thought for the consequences they may bring, vulnerable people who turn to our health service for support very often are the victims of what can be a short-sighted policy of the Health Service Executive (HSE).

FIVE new public swimming pools are set to open in the next six months as the Government splashes out on facilities in 38 towns and neighbourhoods across the country.

MINH is just learning to walk and talk - huge milestones in any child’s life.

MANAGEMENT at St Michael’s House - who deny a senior clinical psychologist’s claim he was bullied out of his job - had been asked for a training course on bullying, the Employment Appeals Tribunal heard yesterday.

A controversial nursing home where a man with Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease was transferred shortly before he died was clearly not capable of caring for him, a report revealed today.

A Longford teenager who beat a then 13-year-old girl "to pulp" and viciously raped her after she blacked out from his attempts to strangle her has been given nine years detention.

THE health authorities had a highly critical report on the Leas Cross nursing home in Dublin almost a full year before a television programme exposed substandard conditions there, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has confirmed.

PETER McKENNA died of septicaemia just 12 days after being admitted to Leas Cross nursing home in Swords, Co Dublin.

By Caroline O’Doherty

ROSIE BYRNE’S eyes say it all. They have to. She can’t speak.