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In one of its most aggressive promotions to date, Hibernian Health has announced that it is to cut premiums by ten per cent on its Level 2 Health Plan. Designed to attract VHI customers, a family can save over €600 while individuals can save over €220 on Hibernian Health’s most popular health plan.

A spokeswoman for the HSE has confirmed that waiting times for outpatient appointments at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, are "well below" the seven months national average waiting time.

Carlow Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan has asked that the Government come clean about the plan for medical cards for the over 70s and spell out what they are considering for the future of the scheme.

Consumers could be better off by more than €900, including up to €400 cashback, by simply switching their health insurance and other policies to Hibernian Aviva before February 28 2009.

You’ve gotta hand it to the 10,000 senior citizens who used their free travel passes to get to Dublin yesterday, in order to protest outside the Dáil as a result of the medical card fiasco.

Fifty GAA senior county players will be visiting 927 camps this summer, including Anthony Daly current Dublin hurling manager and former captain of Clare senior inter-county hurling team, and Colm O'Rourke former inter-county Gaelic footballer for Meath.

In the wake of the huge public outcry which followed the government's highly unpopular decision to abolish the automatic right to medical cards for the over 70s in last week's budget, the government this week announced a number of significant changes to the controversial plan.

Kilkenny councillor Tom Maher was elected as the new chairperson of the Health Service Executive’s Regional Health Forum South at its meeting in Cork last week.

It’s typical of the media in this country - we pick an issue, focus on it, give it endless column inches and time on the airwaves, while other equally damning issues get swept under the carpet.