IT beggars belief that the statutory body responsible for protecting public health through the regulation of medical products failed to appear in court to prosecute a raft of 59 summonses against three defendants.

THE Government could be forced to remove the current ban which forbids the sale of medicines by mail order and over the internet, following a ruling by the European Court of Justice.

Twenty-nine jobs are to go in Cork, with the closure of the Elisa Partnership in Ringaskiddy.