TECHNOLOGY similar to PlayStation is being used for the first time in a community care hospital to help stroke sufferers with their recovery.

THE Department of Finance was yesterday urged to waive a €60,000 VAT demand on a health machine purchased with voluntary funding.

VOLUNTARY fund raisers who helped purchase a spinal and brain injury machine for a paralysed Co Tipperary girl have been hit with a massive VAT bill by Revenue.

SUSPENDED in a harness and strapped to robotic legs, Bríd Courtney experiences a sensation commonplace to most of us, but singular to her.

BY JULY of 2001, five-year--old Edel Ryan had made a few introductory visits to Ballagh National School in Tipperary, preparing herself for the big day in September when she would join the ranks of the junior infants.