"There is hope out there. You hear ‘meningitis’ and you think: dead. But you can survive it."

Ireland has the highest incidence of cases of meningitis in Europe, according to a new report.

Parents of children who have died of meningitis have called for a new vaccine for the B strain of the disease to be introduced here without delay.

Former conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf are battling every day to walk like their little friends do.