Health board boss attacked

THIS week’s horrific attack on a senior health board worker, who was doused in petrol and set alight, is not linked to his work with the mental heath services, garda sources revealed last night.

Tom Hourigan senior manager of mental health services with the Mid-Western Health Board is in a critical but stable condition in Cork University hospital, where he is being treated for serious burns to his face and hands.

The 51-year-old was getting out of his car at his home in Meadowvale, Raheen, when a masked man threw petrol over him and then set him alight.