An Australian lawyer has set a world record by stringing up almost 1.2 million Christmas lights in the centre of the national capital.

An Australian lawyer has set a world record by stringing up almost 1.2 million Christmas lights in the centre of the national capital.

ONE of Ireland’s most southerly communities has become the Island of Paint and Scholars after the first graduates of an offshore degree programme earned their scrolls yesterday.

THE National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) register has called for national protocols to be put in place for the investigation of sudden infant deaths.

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.

PARENTS in Britain are being advised to give dummies to newborns on the grounds that they can cut the risk of cot death.

SCIENTISTS in the US say they have found the strongest evidence yet that cot death is caused partly by a genetic disorder, which may one day be treatable.

BABIES who share their parents’ beds are more likely to suffer cot death, according to researchers at one of the country’s leading hospitals.

PARENTS who give their sleeping babies dummies during their first year of life cut the risk of cot death by more than 90%, a study has found.

Babies should be offered pacifiers at bedtime, and they should sleep in their parents’ room – but not in their beds – in order to lessen the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the Untied States’ largest group of paediatricians says.

The discovery of a new virus in two Wisconsin babies thought to be victims of sudden infant death syndrome has triggered questions about how often such mysterious tragedies might be due to infection.

SCIENTISTS have discovered more genetic mutations that appear to be linked with sudden infant death syndrome, otherwise known as cot death.

THE smoking ban may help reduce the number of babies lost every year to cot death, experts said yesterday.

A REPORT which found that infants who sleep with their parents are seven times more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has led to a surge in calls to the SIDS information line.