Irish people struck down with ebola in areas ravaged by the infection may have to depend on other EU nations to bring them home.

A NEW pan-EU helpline for people with suicidal thoughts cannot be introduced by the Samaritans in the Republic because of fears that the cost of running the service would “financially cripple” the charity.

GOVERNMENTS will not be able to automatically cut off internet access to users who illegally download copyright material under draft new EU legislation just agreed.