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In a pre-election whistle-stop walk-about of Kilkenny City, Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the Kilkenny Advertiser that St Luke’s Hospital A+E in Kilkenny has been lauded as a model of best practise for other hospitals around the country.

The file on the Ryan report cannot be closed until the guilty are brought to justice and made face the full rigours of the law for their abuse and neglect, Beverley Flynn TD has said.

One of the most outspoken critics of the local health service was this week selected as the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum at its meeting in Merlin Park Hospital.

Having an accident, or suffering an illness, when you’re on holiday can be an ordeal. So it’s reassuring to know that as an Irish person travelling in Europe you can arm yourself with a free health insurance card. This card allows you to access health services in the public system of any of the other 26 EU countries, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland, if you become ill or injured while on holiday or temporary stay there on the same basis as citizens of that state.

The Irish Pharmacy Union has said that it has “grave concerns” about the HSE's contingency plan for the supply of medicines after August 1.

Fears are mounting for the future of St Luke’s Hospital A+E after Fine Gael TD Phil Hogan voiced his concerns in the media this week about its future.

The newly opened health centre on Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, will serve a population of almost 250 people, ranging in age from the very young to the very old.

An organisation which provides care for older people in Galway has produced a handbook which provides advice on coping with issues which may arise for families caring for older parents at home.

A decision regarding the future organisation of St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny and acute hospital services in the south-east is to be made in coming months but fears are that Kilkenny may lose two of its vital departments.

Lisbon is not a remedy for Ireland’s economic ills or the way towards a more social Europe. It will simply take the EU further down the road of militarisation and “give away almost all of Ireland’s sovereign power”.