Health cutbacks have forced the country’s only rehabilitation hospital to close its doors to new patients who have suffered a stroke, brain and spinal injuries, it was confirmed last night.

Child victims of domestic violence still miss their abusive fathers and want to see them, a new report has found.

The mother of two pupils who have special educational needs today said her children are being denied their human rights as a result of the classroom assistants’ dispute.

An addiction centre in County Down which was closed in August will reopen within weeks after moves to resolve health and safety issues.

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.