THREE years ago, Evelyn Wainwright’s husband had a stroke. As she too is disabled, suddenly changing a light bulb or fixing the smoke alarm became impossible tasks.

Following Eamonn Gilmore’s meeting with Bill Gates, the Tánaiste was reported as saying “Ireland is very much involved in making polio history”.

COMMUNITY-BASED programmes to reduce sudden cardiac deaths are not being linked up with the national emergency service because the €800,000 allocated for the appointment of 11 approved Health Service Executive posts is now “blocked”, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

POLIO survivors hit with a secondary illness are to seek automatic entitlement to medical cards at a Government committee next week.

A support group for polio victims has called on the Government to provide financial assistance to people who contracted the disease in Ireland between the 1930s and 1960s.