DEPRESSION PAIN: Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, a new study suggests.

PLASTIC PADDING: Exposure in the womb to a common chemical used in plastic water bottles and food cans may predispose babies to obesity, research suggests.

Irish people living in Scotland are more than twice as likely to end up in hospital or die from alcohol-related diseases as white Scottish people, research has found.

Ballybunion-based Grasshopper Skateboards aims to break into the UK and US markets with its eco-friendly designs

A symposium will be held at University College Cork (UCC) today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cork-born writer Frank O’Connor’s death and to celebrate his legacy.

A dog IQ test has been developed by scientists who say it could pave the way for breakthroughs in our understanding of the link between intelligence and health.

Stillbirths have dropped by almost 8% in England since the smoking ban was introduced, new research shows.

A security guard and a student protester have been arrested over a confrontation outside a university building in Scotland.

A security guard has been filmed apparently pushing a student protester to the ground and putting a hand round their throat outside a university building in Scotland.

An Irish woman and her daughter have died in a car crash in Poland.

On the 75th anniversary of the IRA’s infamous bombing of Coventry, Ryle Dwyer examines the context and implications of the outrage.

Rugby players under the age of 18 should be barred from the scrum front row to avoid injury to their necks, a study suggests.

The death notice that appeared in yesterday’s Irish Examiner was spare and to the point — a bit like the deceased herself.

Insights into how bacteria “talk” to each other could help scientists halt their growing resistance to antibiotics.

James Blunt has got engaged to his long-term girlfriend Sofia Wellesley.

She probably can't use this phrase, "I've had more hot meals than…"

Professor Peter Higgs, the scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle, says he is “overwhelmed” to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Scientists in Scotland say new aerial studies of the earth’s surface could help predict where earthquakes and landslides may occur.

The Garda system for handling informants may be in breach of European laws and legislation is needed to regulate it, a legal expert has warned.

Scientists say they have identified a link between strains of a malaria parasite, potentially paving the way for a life-saving vaccine.

Scientists have hailed the “momentous” discovery of what appears to be the ‘God particle’ that gives matter mass and holds the fabric of the universe together.

Scientists may have finally tracked down the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together.

Scientists believe they have captured the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together.

Children who struggle to speak at the age of two are less likely to do well when they start primary school, research suggests.

RIGHTS campaigners have reacted furiously after a US student based in Scotland unmasked himself as the author of the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blogs, which charted the security crackdown in Syria.

DAPHNE Pochin Mould is a remarkable name for a remarkable woman.

Digicel has announced details of the initial phase of its mobile money service project in Haiti which will deliver a range of mobile financial capabilities to the people of Haiti.

HE became Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party without an election, and now Gordon Brown has lost his job after failing in the biggest electoral test of his life.

CANCER patients who used a cannabis mouth spray had their pain levels reduced by 30%, researchers said yesterday.

SCIENTISTS working from a tiny laboratory at the bottom of Britain’s deepest mine could beat a multi-billion-pound Swiss project to crack the mystery of creation.

The Government should re-introduce third level fees to help create a world-class education system, former EU Commissioner Peter Sutherland said today.

Richard Collins looks at Darwin’s forgotten precursors

LAST September the villages of Ginchy and Guillemont in the Somme region of France joined to commemorate the courageous efforts and grievous losses suffered by the 16th Irish Division to liberate both villages from German occupation in September 1916.

Environmental activists in the UK were today preparing to target an oil refinery in the build-up to the G8 summit.

Scotland international Simon Taylor is hoping his first start in a year for Edinburgh Gunners can catapult him into Matt Williams’ team for the RBS 6 Nations game against Italy next week.

London Irish today announced two appointments to its management team.

Two detectives are flying to West Africa to help with the search for a British explorer missing for almost a year, it emerged today.

Children’s writer JK Rowling is to receive an honorary degree from Edinburgh University.

One of the literary world’s rising stars in detective fiction has spoken of his “contempt” for fellow Scots author Irvine Welsh, branding him a “travesty for Scotland”, it emerged today.

BRITISH scientists yesterday claimed to have made a breakthrough in finding a permanent treatment for malaria.

A major investigation was tonight under way into a blaze which continued to burn in the heart of one of the world’s most historic cities, causing widespread destruction running into millions of pounds.

The Irish Under 19 team to play Italy in the opening round of the Junior World Cup tomorrow is named.

Darius Danesh is vowing to continue his pursuit of stardom, but not as the new member of Hear'say.