Gardai are to deploy extra resources throughout the country to help the Criminal Assets Bureau crack down on the nationwide network of major drug gang “lieutenants”.

Hospital maternity units are facing a crisis due to the baby boom and lack of staffing, doctors have warned. Traditional standards of maternity care are under threat because of failure to plan for the birth rise, doctors have said.

This young Ulster family is being forced to live in a single bedroom – because the new home they desperately need has been taken over by squatters.

A €10,000 reward has been offered for the arrest of a serial offender behind vicious beatings of three women in separate night-time attacks.

A British Tribunal has heard evidence of financial mismanagement at the long established London Irish Centre.

Cancer survival rates in Northern Ireland have improved in recent years, according to a major new report. The report from the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry studied every NI cancer case between 1993 and 2004.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said the HSE will have to live within its operating budget for this year, as a series of bed closures and surgical postponements affect the country.

A patient at the Central Mental Hospital died from injuries incurred while he was being restrained by staff during his transfer from one part of the facility to another.

Residents of a small town were last night “disturbed” that one of Britain’s most wanted child sex offenders had been living in their midst for up to seven years.

More than 400 separate legal actions are reportedly being taken against the Department of Health over illegal nursing home charges.