Hopes have been raised that scientists will be able to store donor organs for months or even years.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted that hospitals have been given increases of 3% in budgets this year and that the coalition is cutting costs and not services.

Ireland must have a clear roadmap strategy to deal with a major bird flu outbreak in the near future, medics warned today.

AN expert committee established by the Government to prepare an action plan in the event of a bioterrorist attack has not met for over a year, despite ongoing doubts about the State’s ability to deal with an outbreak of a highly infectious disease like smallpox.