An eight-year-old boy has died after he was knocked down at a rugby club as an awards ceremony was taking place.

UNIVERSITY of Limerick yesterday conferred medical degrees on a class of graduates who did not first dream of careers on wards or in general practices, wielding stethoscopes and thermometers.

YET another bank holiday weekend saw carnage on the roads as four people died in accidents in Wexford, Kerry and Cork.

A 29-year-old man has died following a road crash in Co Wexford this morning.

An independent committee set up by the Health Service Executive has reportedly completed its investigation into the death of Evelyn Joel in Co Wexford earlier this year.

THE daughter of a woman who died weighing just six-and-a-half stone and the daughter’s 34-year-old partner were released without charge last night after 12 hours of garda questioning about her death.

THIS is one of the women at the centre of the House of Horrors controversy in Wexford, where a 58-year-old woman died weighing just four stone after months of starvation.

One man died tonight following a horrific collision between a bus and a car on the main road from Dublin to Wexford.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was yesterday accused of presiding over “absolute bedlam” as nurses protested around the country over the A&E crisis and the soaring number of patients on trolleys.