While the internet is being blamed for the surge in teenage bullying, name-calling and cold-shouldering have always been used as weapons against vulnerable teenagers.

NATURALLY-OCCURRING radon gas, which kills 200 people each year, is so high in parts of south Cork and Cobh that public meetings are planned for next month to highlight the hazard.

Survivors of the Stardust disaster and relatives of those killed in the nightclub fire are protesting outside the Taoiseach's constituency office in Dublin today.

THE number of gardaí working in the Traffic Corps is to be doubled to 1,100 in a bid to stop the carnage on the roads, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said last night.