Decision to stop embalming services at Our Lady’s “absolutely digusting”

by Paul Neilan

FUNERAL directors in the county are preparing to stage a public protest on Friday at 8.30am (November 27) over the HSE decision to discontinue embalming services at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan.
Kells funeral director and councillor Brian Curran says the decision to remove the service [...]

Second case of Clostridium Difficile in Navan confirmed and more with symptoms
by Paul Neilan
THE POTENTIALLY-lethal superbug outbreak that hit Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, last week was yesterday confirmed in a second patient at the hospital.
The Clostridium Difficile outbreak, which shut down 91 beds in Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda, in an attempt to isolate the [...]

OVER 60 people in attendance a public meeting last Thursday, November 12 in the GAA Club, Ratoath, where the Establishing Committee of GaelScoil Rathto updated parents on the progress made to date in setting up the new Gaelscoil in Ratoath.
“Based on the 2006 census, Ratoath has the youngest population in the country as a village/town [...]

TANKARDSTOWN Estate outside Slane has become the latest member of next year’s prestigious Blue Book, which lists luxury accommodation in Irish country house hotels, manors, castles and restaurants.
The criteria for inclusion in the Blue Book includes charm, character, style and individuality, membership is by invitation only and it enjoys the reputation of being the connoisseur’s [...]

By Paul Neilan
NAVAN will its Christmas lights after all, it has emerged. Last week it emerged that the Chamber of Council for Navan, whose responsibility it is to provide the town with its Christmas lighting and cover the cost of the undertaking, told Navan that it could not afford the lights this year. As a [...]

by Paul Neilan
CROSS-border crime gangs are targeting Meath commuters who leave their cars at the side of the road before they get a bus or car-pool to Dublin with unsuspecting others.
Meath’s gang problems have increased so much with the recent ATM attackers and Dublin drug gangs operating in the Royal County, that the garda rapid [...]

by Paul Neilan
THE FATE of Kells Heritage Centre could rest in the hands of the people, according to Kells Town Council chairman Brian Curran.
Cllr Curran is preparing to name a date where the people of Kells, Meath and beyond can air their views about the future of the centre, which was closed six weeks ago.
Cllr [...]

by Paul Neilan
MEATH “patients’ lives are at risk” this winter because of HSE cuts,
say over-worked nurses at Our Lady’s Hospital, who are at “breaking
point”.
The nurses are also refusing to rule out strike action, if things do
not change at the beleaguered hospital.
The HSE has refused to fill empty posts at the hospital by imposing a
staffing embargo, [...]

MEATH County Council are inviting the public to view drawings
describing the ‘emerging preferred route corridor’ for the N2 Slane
Bypass, which will be placed on display at the Conyngham Arms Hotel in
Slane on Tuesday next from 2pm (October 6).
Members of the Council’s design team for this project will be
available to answer queries.
Following the public display, the [...]

By Edel Murray
A YOUNG Macetown Montessori teacher who died in Perth, Australia on September 29, 2008, passed away after developing an “aggressive” infection, an inquest heard last week.
Sarah McGoldrick (21), who travelled to Australia in January 2008 on a year-long visa, told a friend she wasn’t feeling bad 45 minutes before she was found unresponsive [...]