The Cabinet is to meet to discuss the National Children’s Hospital debacle tomorrow amid growing opposition to downsizing the facility and increasing evidence of the crisis within existing paediatric services.

SIX professors of paediatrics opposed to the selection of the Mater Hospital as the site for a new national children’s hospital have publicly challenged the right of their representative body to say it endorses the project.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a €250 million co-location hospital in Cork were approved last night.

BROADCASTER Eamon Dunphy has been censured by broadcasting watchdogs for an on-air tirade against the Health Service Executive (HSE).

More than 30 new sites in Cork City have been declared derelict as part of a concerted effort to tackle dereliction in the city.

Objectors to a proposed €180m motorway in Cork have been given less than three weeks notice to prepare a case against it.

Campaigners opposed to the Office of Public Work’s €140 million flood defence plan for Cork have insisted that a tidal barrier can be built for €135m as part of their three-point plan to protect the city from flooding.

A long-serving county councillor has accused the Department of Education of turning its back on an east Cork village by failing to provide it with a national school.

Five recommendations made by the Ryan Report six years ago to help protect children have yet to be implemented due to lack of resources.