Ireland is to provide €5m over the next five years to help eradicate Polio.

POLIO left Dauda Abdullahi with twisted limbs, unable to walk. But he refuses to allow his children to be immunised against the disease that crippled him in Nigeria three decades ago.

DESPITE the growing likelihood of a US-led war in Iraq, 14,000 health workers will fan out across the country next week to immunise more than four million children against polio.