New funding is being provided for medical research after Alzheimer’s experts expect the number of people with dementia in Northern Ireland alone to double within a generation.

Round-the-clock emergency response services are needed to help people at risk of suicide, it was claimed today.

YOUNG people addicted to cocaine, suffering from eating disorders, or with suicidal tendencies are to benefit from a €100m expansion in services by the largest independent mental health care service in the country.

The number of rape cases dealt with in the Central Criminal Court was reportedly up 26% last year.

More than €100m is to be spent on upgrading facilities and services at St Patrick’s Mental Hospital in Dublin.

An Ulster charity has been forced to shell out almost £35,000 after two employees were sacked – one of them via a voice message left on their phone.

THE embattled Health Services Executive is receiving 400 formal complaints a month from disgruntled members of the public.

PRESSURE has been put on Northern Ireland’s Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie to create more social housing in deprived areas such as west Tyrone, after it emerged that the Housing Executive is sitting on £240m of surplus land.

Fine Gael says it will be tabling a private-members’ motion in the Dáil this week demanding a massive increase in state funding for children with autism.

The Government comfortably defeated a Fine Gael motion in the Dáil last night that was critical of the services for cystic fibrosis and mental health patients.