THE first thing people ask Simon Hutchinson is if he’s mad.

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

PHARMACISTS have accused the Health Service Executive of throwing up a smokescreen over a looming crisis in the supply of medicines under the State’s community schemes.

THERE are almost 36,000 people in Ireland being treated for epilepsy and the number of cases is increasing, new figures show.

A CONFERENCE aimed at teenagers with epilepsy is set to take place in Cork.

A 21-YEAR-OLD man who died while out for a walk may have suffered an epileptic seizure.

UP TO 80 deaths from epilepsy each year could be prevented if the Government had kept promises to provide better services for the 35,000 Irish people living with the condition.

Epileptics have to wait for up to two years to see a specialist, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.

JOCKEYS Johnny Murtagh and Fran Berry took time off from their duties at Royal Ascot to record doubles on last night's card at Leopardstown.

DAYDREAMING children may be suffering a mild form of epilepsy, a leading expert claimed yesterday.

UP to a hundred Irish families are paying to have their brain injured child put on a rehabilitation programme in Britain because the service is not available in their area.