Haemophilia patients who received certain blood products in Irish hospitals before 1992 were today urged to come forward to be tested for HIV or Hepatitis C.

Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions.

EFFORTS by haemophiliacs to sue the drug companies responsible for infecting them with contaminated blood were yesterday stalled once more by the Government.

The Irish Haemophilia Society is reportedly furious at the Government’s failure to honour commitments made in the wake of the Lindsay Tribunal.

HAEMOPHILIACS infected by contaminated blood products have accused the Government of stonewalling in its pledge to examine the drug companies that supplied the tainted stock.

IRELAND is the first country in the world to set a new safety standard by electronically tracking blood products given to people with the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia.

Judge Alison Lindsay has attacked the Minister for Health whom she says failed to defend her report into the hepatitis and HIV blood scandal.