MARY DAVIS is on her third phone of the day, a day which began at 7am and is now 15, verging on a less than sweet 16 hours old. The borrowed mobile is staple-gunned to the side of her head, its battery power waning more than Davis herself.

Two new samples of the Legionnaires’ bacteria have been found at Waterford Regional Hospital where a woman died of the disease earlier this month.

New medical research has recently been published that reveals that there is no link between autism and childhood immunisation with the measles vaccine.