By Pat Flanagan MARY Harney abolished 11 health boards in 2004 and gave us a health service to die for - otherwise known as the HSE. After numerous scandals involving dozens of deaths, she has now put forward measures which look suspiciously like, well, regional health boards.

By PAT FLANAGAN TWO fishermen have been swept out to sea after a second trawler sank in gale-force winds. Rescuers had earlier pulled their two Lithuanian colleagues from the water after they survived 20 hours in a life raft.

By PAT TIERNEY and PAT FLANAGAN A MUM had to give birth in an ambulance at the side of a road yesterday after services were slashed at her local hospital. The terrified woman was just half a mile from Monaghan General, where health officials have radically cut back the surgical unit to save cash.