Multiple sclerosis sufferers have described the decision by the Department of Health to legislate for cannabis-based drugs as “fantastic news”.

ONE of the country’s largest mental hospitals should remain in public ownership, a town council has said.

PEOPLE were urged yesterday to go out in the midday sun to ensure adequate levels of vitamin D.

A FORMER senator who was heavily involved in the North’s Patten Commission policing report will chair a three-month inquiry into the Tallaght Hospital crisis.

A TEENAGER suffering from multiple sclerosis said yesterday that stem cell treatment had helped her walk for the first time in more than a year.

AUTHOR Cecilia Ahern yesterday threw her weight in a drive to help people with MS.

IRELAND’S first-ever open day for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) hopes to encourage hundreds of people with the disease to stop suffering in silence.

DISABLED people in Kerry are fighting for proper access to the centre of justice administration in the county.

A WOMAN whose mother has multiple sclerosis was told she would receive no insurance payout if she died from an illness linked to MS, even though the condition is not hereditary.

A WOMAN whose mother has Multiple Sclerosis was told she would receive no insurance payout if she died from an illness linked to MS even though the condition is not hereditary.

RECENTLY 13 members of the Cork Branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society travelled by rail to Dublin for a week’s respite in the MS Care Centre inRathgar. They returned after a fun week in Dublin, again by rail. The journey to and from Dublin went smoothly and the help received from Irish Rail staff was excellent.

WHETHER it’s Harry Potter or the Famous Five, young bookworms have turned over millions of pages for charity.

Around 30,000 Irish schoolchildren have raised more than €1m for charity in this year's MS "Read-a-thon".

YOUNGSTERS Aoife McKenna and Danielle Winckworth sat spellbound yesterday as author and storyteller Larry O’Loughlin spun his web of magic.

Around 30,000 brave souls are running 26.2 miles through the streets of the UK capital in the 21st London Marathon.