Voyage Irlande

WORKERS SPOKE of big mortgages to pay and a feeling of heartbreak at the announcement that the Hormann Electronics plant in Cork was shutting its doors for the last time yesterday with the loss of 138 jobs.

SEVERAL LETTERS to patients informing them their chest X-rays and CT scans are to be reviewed by the Health Service Executive (HSE) were delivered to the wrong people yesterday.

MOTORING LOBBY group AA Ireland has called on the Government and the European Commission to investigate the rising cost of diesel.

THERE WERE more cases of MRSA bloodstream infection reported by Dublin's St James's Hospital than by any other hospital in the State last year, new figures show, writes Eithne Donnellan.

MAHON TRIBUNAL: A FORMER financial controller of Green Property, the company behind the Blanchardstown shopping centre, has said he was "shocked", "surprised"and "dumbfounded" when he learned his company had made payments of at least £23,000 to the late Liam Lawlor, writes Fiona Gartland.

STATE HOSPITALS will lose ?80 million in private health insurance payments once the first six private hospitals to be built on State lands are established, the Government has conceded, writes Mark Hennessy.

ONE IN four principal teachers in primary schools has referred an allegation or made a disclosure of child abuse to the HSE, writes Sean Flynn.

MEMBERS OF the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association (IHCA) have voted by a large majority to accept the terms of a revised contract of employment put forward for hospital consultants by health service management, writes Eithne Donnellan.

THE INTRODUCTION of the new consultant contracts will have little impact without "root and branch reform" of the health service, a senior hospital consultant has warned, writes Kathy Sheridan.

GENERAL PRACTITIONERS' CONFERENCE THE ANNUAL meeting of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP), which takes place in Galway this weekend, is expected to adopt a new strategy plan for general practice in the Republic, writes Dr Muiris Houston.