Boys are being exposed to certain preventable cancers and sexually transmitted diseases because of the State’s continuing failure to include them in a vaccination programme available to girls since 2010.

A mockumentary on STI sniffer dogs is racking up the views on YouTube as it attempts to shock

Casual Christmas flings by people who went further than a kiss under the mistletoe have led to a record spike in calls to STI clinics.

A major teachers' union has warned the Government that it will consider taking industrial action if there is any attempt to unilaterally impose Croke Park II pay cuts.

PEOPLE take more risks, have more partners, drink more — and, from an earlier age indulge in more sexual contact, often without protection.

New research is advising the government not to introduce a screening campaign for chlamydia.

The number of gay men in the North diagnosed with HIV has hit a record high.

IRELAND of the 1930s is often viewed as being chaste and straitlaced, with old Pathe newsreel images of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress dominating perceptions of the era.

A CLEAR policy framework is needed from the Government if the country is to become competitive on the science, technology and innovation (STI) front.

A man has today been found guilty of anally raping his boss’s teenage daughter two years ago.

A sexual health awareness campaign targeting 30,000 third level students is to be launched today.

CORK city is about to go head-to-head with Waterford in a bid to host the Tall Ships Race in 2011.

WATERFORD is today officially launching its bid to get a multi-million euro festival back to the city in five years' time.

GENERAL practitioners are under reporting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a new report has found.

WATERFORD has been asked to submit a bid for the Tall Ships’ Races in 2011, a move which is being interpreted locally as a major indication the multi-million euro event could well be back to the south-east in five years.

Newcourt Group plc has announced that it has acquired Security Technology Ireland Limited (STI) for €2m, of which €0.5m is deferred.

TENS of thousands of people are being forced to spend up to €150 on tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) due to waiting lists of up to eight weeks at many public hospital clinics or due to inconvenient opening hours.

THE number of patients treated for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the mid-west increased by over 60% between 2000 and 2004.

IN a Dáil protest to mark Irish AIDS Day, campaigners yesterday called on the Government to put sexual health on the political agenda by developing a national strategy to deal with the issue.

Enterprise Minister Micheál Martin today announced the appointment of a new Advisory Science Council to succeed the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, ICSTI.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheál Martin has commissioned two major reports to help realise Government targets for private and public investment in research.

The Government has appointed Dr Barry McSweeney as Ireland's first chief science adviser.

FOUR children in the last three years were born here with syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease they inherited from their mothers.