People need to “cop on” and help protect those most at risk of serious illness if they catch Covid-19, according to Age Action.

THE open fire in the sittingroom has been replaced by the more efficient solid-fuel stove. But the smoke must still go somewhere.

According to the Asthma Society of Ireland, 8,200 deaths have been prevented in Dublin since the ban was introduced in 1990.

For the past month or more we have been made aware of the effects of greenhouse gases on the planet in a most striking manner. Millions of people around the world have been galvanised into action to raise awareness of the dangers to humanity’s only home.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here — now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here - now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

Asthma is costing the state €472m each year - or over 1,200 per person.

Helen O’Callaghan hears about the overuse of reliever inhalers.

Just under one in ten cases of Irish childhood asthma is linked with traffic pollution, according to a new global study.

Dr Dermot Nolan, GP and asthma specialist, and spokesperson for Live Every Breath Campaign

I’ve been known to hit “snooze” on the alarm. Generally, though, I’m on the iphone, browsing emails, so my head’s in work before I’m out of bed.

People are being reminded to check in on our elderly relatives and neighbours this evening.

Teachers have described as “a well-kept secret” a scheme that allows schools to obtain asthma inhalers for emergencies.

Be mindful of children with asthma, says Helen O’Callaghan.

I still remember how frightening it was when I had my first serious asthma attack as a teenager, writes Averil Power

High-profile former Independent senator and marriage equality campaigner Averil Power has ruled out running in the next general election after taking up a “challenging” €95,000 a year charity sector role.

There is no evidence that Irish doctors are over-diagnosing asthma in children but the potentially fatal condition is often trivialised, the Asthma Society of Ireland has said.

Asthma medications taken during infancy have been linked to stunted growth.

Smoky coal is to be banned in towns across the country within three years.

September is the most dangerous time for children with asthma meaning parents should be extra vigilant about their child’s triggers as they prepare to head back to school, according to the Asthma Society of Ireland (ASI).

At least one person dies every week in Ireland from asthma, a condition that costs the economy €500m a year, according to the Asthma Society of Ireland.

After one of their classmates died from an asthma attack, students from a Limerick secondary school were inspired to raise awareness about the condition.

A cure for asthma could be available in five years, according to scientists who believe they have found the root cause of the condition.

Doctors agreed a deal allowing free GP care for under-6s after the Government increased its payment by €30m to €67m — an 81% increase, it emerged yesterday.

Asthma sufferers have hit out at Ireland’s “one size fits all” system of managing the condition, saying it is not treated seriously enough.

Ten leading health campaign groups representing doctors and people suffering from cancer, heart disease and other life-threatening conditions have written to Cabinet urging them not to scrap the plain packaging anti-smoking plans.

Bags of smoky coal don’t come with a health warning attached like you find on packets of cigarettes, but, perhaps, they should.

A spike is expected in emergency hospital admissions for children with asthma next month.

The Asthma Society is conducting clinics to show teachers how to manage children who have the condition.

Health charities have reacted angrily to attempts by German business groups and MEPs to derail Ireland’s planned ban on branded tobacco products.

One in every two people with asthma put their lives at risk because their asthma is out of control.

Parents of children with asthma have been found wanting when it comes to managing the condition, evidenced by the almost one in eight who had to bring their child to the emergency department last year.

Almost 2,000 lives could be saved every year with an all-island smokey coal ban, the Asthma Society of Ireland has claimed.

A national asthma programme could reduce the €501m annual cost of asthma-related illness to the State.

New ways to reduce the cost of asthma-related illnesses to the Irish state will be outlined in a report being unveiled by the Asthma Society of Ireland later today.

A major fire at a recycling centre which has been burning for three days is believed to have been arson.

Three quarters of non-smokers and more than half of smokers support plans for plain packaging on tobacco.

A separation is needed to remove the issue of illicit cigarettes from the general discourse on plain tobacco packaging.

Plain pack cigarettes will mean fewer child smokers, two leading anti-smoking charities have claimed.