UL Hospitals Group is urging the public in the Mid-West to consider all care options before attending the Emergency Department (ED) at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), which is this afternoon managing an unprecedented level of presentations.

The HSE has confirmed that the area vaccination centres for Ennis will now open on Wednesday, April 21st several days earlier than expected.

The Mid-West COVID-19 Vaccination Centres at Ennis is set to open the week commencing Monday April 26th, marking a significant scaling up of the COVID-19 vaccination programme across the region.

The Board of Milford Care Centre, which provides specialist palliative care and older persons services in the Mid-West, announces the appointment of Mary O’Brien, M.Sc., B.Sc. (Hons), R.G.N., R.M, as its new chief executive.

The Health Information and Quality Authority has reported that during an unannounced inspection January this year, Cahercalla Community Hospital was found to be non-compliant under 12 regulations.

A multi-agency operation was mounted to locate and recover a young girl who was injured in a fall in a popular wooded area in Co Clare this afternoon.

Clare Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe has said that while news of a delay to the development of a Primary Healthcare Centre for Sixmilebridge is concerning – he has been assured that there is full commitment to progressing the centre.

Clare Independent T.D. Michael McNamara has criticised the Government's Mandatory Hotel Quarantine strategy, which he described as "a half-baked exercise in optics" and a "flawed measure" in the context of an unchecked border with Northern Ireland and when the majority of persons arriving in the state whether by air, sea or over land are not tested for variants of Covid-19.