Eight hundred mourners packed into Graiguenamanagh’s Duiske Abbey for the funeral of Dr Marian Tierney, who died recently at the age of 57 after a five-year battle with cancer.

By Dara Gantly.

By Dara Gantly & Gary Culliton.

By Gary Culliton.

With salaries accounting for more than 70 per cent of a hospital’s budget, Dr Mick Molloy believes solely targeting discretionary budgets would be merely tinkering at the health economic margins.

By Aoife Connors.

By Pat Kelly.

By Pat Kelly.

Three times the scheduled number of consultants left the public service last year after changes to pensions were announced in the Budget, reports Gary Culliton.

Consultant in Emergency Medicine Prof John Ryan believes the ‘hospital in the home’ concept can address ED overcrowding and free up hospital beds, reports Dara Gantly.