Paedophile priests got away with decades of horrific child sex abuse because the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland was granted police immunity, a devastating report has revealed.

Irish medical researchers have claimed they are tantalisingly close to a cure for leukaemia after encouraging results from tests on a new drug.

ONE person in Carrickfergus is is subject to public protection arrangements for sexual or violent offenders.

Staff and residents at an east Belfast residential home are celebrating after winning a 2009 award for Best Kept Health and Social Care Facility.

Up to 150 beds at two Belfast hospitals earmarked for closure next month are to be saved after Government departments were told they must help pay for the fight against swine flu.

The number of applications made to take vulnerable children in NI into care have almost doubled in the past year, according to a government agency.

The Health Minister is expected to face tough questions about his department’s deepening cash crisis when he appears in front of the Assembly’s health committee today.

A staff nurse employed at Knockbracken Healthcare Park in Belfast has told a court he slapped a 72-year-old dementia sufferer five times in the face, because he was “feeling under pressure”.

A new study in Northern Ireland has been welcomed by the country’s health minister. Research which formed part of the A Flourishing Society – Aspiration for Emotional Health and Wellbeing in Northern Ireland report was carried out by the Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health (NIAMH).

Allegations of assaults against children at a south Belfast nursery stem as far back as May, the Belfast Telegraph has learned.