The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar helped to launch this year's Daffodil Day, but someone wasn't happy about it.

A complaint against Boots and blogger Gracy Mongey, who runs 'Faces By Grace' has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).

Cancer survivor, Tonia Lawlor, is one of many people to benefit from services funded by money raised on Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day.

This week we meet up with Mark Cagney, the 60-year-old host of TV3’s Ireland AM.

As melanoma is the biggest cancer killer, Arlene Harris says it makes sense to wise up when it comes to sunscreens

A ‘breastfeeding welcome here’ sign has been launched to help normalise breast-feeding in public.

It’s back and it’s bigger than ever — this year, lots of brands have got on board with Breast Cancer Awareness Month by launching revamped products or choosing bestsellers to contribute to the cause.

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.

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The expanding Irish arm of UK pharmaceutical retail giant Boots last year increased its pre-tax profits by 12% to €17.8m.

650 new jobs are being created around the country for the Christmas period.

A total of 27 jobs are to come on-stream in Galway and Cork, it was announced today.

There was good news on the jobs front yesterday with a marketing materials firm based in Dundalk, Co Louth, announcing it will take on 250 seasonal call centre workers.

There was good news on the jobs front yesterday with the announcement of 85 positions across three companies, including 25 jobs at the Jelly Bean Factory, which were announced by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Twenty-five new positions are being created at the Jelly Bean Factory in Blanchardstown.

HAVE you been forgetting to squirt? Is your anti-bacterial hand gel rolling about in the bottom of your handbag, its sell-by date well expired? Anti-bacterial hand sanitisers claim to kill 99.9% of germs but the Irish populace seems just a tad switched off.

Boots has sparked a prescription price war with smaller pharmacies by slashing the cost of some of the most popular medicines by as much as 31%.

THE expanding Irish arm of British pharmaceutical retail giant Boots last year increased its pre-tax profits by 44% to €15.9 million.

A divisional pharmacy manager for Boots Ireland, Mary Rose Burke, has scooped the title of Businesswoman of the Year.

Roscommon: The 62nd Boots store in Ireland was opened on Main Street, Roscommon, yesterday and will provide 14 jobs for the area.

THE governing body for Irish doctors has hit out at the decision by Boots Pharmacy to sell emergency contraception without prescription.

EMERGENCY contraception without prescription will be available for the first time in Ireland at Boots pharmacies from tomorrow.

Boots Ireland has opened a new store on Childers Road, Limerick, bringing the number of Boots stores in Ireland to 56, it was announced today.

Boots Ireland has appointed Debbie Smith as the new managing director of the company.

Boots' Irish operations is to move its headquarters here to Park West in Dublin having acquired over 1,000 square metres of office space, the company said today.

BOOTS, the British healthcare and beauty retail giant, is aiming to nearly double the number of stores it operates in Ireland over the next three years and is looking to boost its pharmacy operations via acquisition.

MORE than 900 Boots staff working in 57 stores around the country are to be balloted for strike action over company plans to introduce cost-saving measures.

Boots have denied reports from Mandate that they are seeking to cut employees' wages as part of their cost-cutting measures.

Boots Ireland is to open a new store in Cork city later this year, its 55th in Ireland, the company announced today.

The Boots outlet in Dublin's Liffey Valley shopping centre delivered the second highest sales across the entire Boots retail chain of more than 3,000 stores for the Christmas period, the company said today.

Boots has announced plans to open at least 30 new stores in Ireland in the next five years, bringing the total number of Boots stores in the Republic to 70 by the year 2011.

Boots Ireland's sales were up 10.4% in the year to March 31, the company said today. This contrasts with an overall group sales increase of 1.9%.

THE Irish division of Boots, the British chemist chain, has recorded an estimated 10.3% rise in sales for the full-year to the end of March, according to company figures.

Boots Ireland is to hold a designer bag auction to raise funds for Action Breast Cancer (ABC), a project of the Irish Cancer Society, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Boots has reported that its Irish stores have turned in a solid performance with strong growth in both Health and Beauty products.