The first acts confirmed for Electric Picnic have been announced this afternoon.

A toddler from Co Cork diagnosed as being profoundly deaf will undergo a “bionic ear” operation in Britain tomorrow, becoming the first Irish person to have the revolutionary surgery.

IT is that time of year when schoolbags are on the top of the shopping list, so I was delighted to read your article headlined ‘Overweight schoolbags cause spinal problems’ (Irish Examiner, August 22).

THE rate of heart attacks in Ireland has halved since the mid-1980s, it emerged yesterday.

Seamus Durack’s rehabilitation from injury has finally been given a boost after he successfully underwent surgery on Monday.

The first gene linked directly to heart attacks has been isolated from an extended Iowa family which has been plagued for generations with coronary artery disease.