Being lonely and socially isolated can increase a person’s risk of heart disease or stroke, new research suggests.

Just one juice or smoothie may exceed a child’s maximum daily sugar limit, with smoothies among the worst offenders, it has emerged.

A symposium will be held at University College Cork (UCC) today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cork-born writer Frank O’Connor’s death and to celebrate his legacy.

CAMBODIA: Pit, only two and with just one eye, needed only 11 minutes before he detected a deadly mine buried in a Cambodian field, work that humans with metal detectors could have taken up to five days to investigate.

A breath test that could detect lung cancer is to undergo clinical trials in British hospitals.

Efforts to establish a university in the south-east appear to be floundering after Waterford Institute of Technology halted work on the required merger with Institute of Technology Carlow.

THERE is a great quote from Niall Tóibín that I recently stumbled across in an old 1980 BBC radio documentary about Cork city and its inhabitants, called As Others See Us.

Sugar is being described as the “new tobacco” for children and the food industry is being urged to slash the amount of sugar it adds to processed food.

The Government has sanctioned a €1.3m investment to provide vital infrastructure at a national maritime and energy research cluster which aims to create 4,000 jobs by 2025.

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Irish women are under siege from tobacco companies who are targeting ‘elegant’ and ‘feminine’ packaging at prospective young and old smokers.

An Irish professor is leading a European research team that hopes to develop the first effective screening test for a life-threatening pregnancy complication.

Behind every suicide and attempted suicide caused by the economic crisis are thousands of hidden cases of mental illness, writes Kate Kelland

SCIENTISTS are becoming more confident that they will be able to contradict Einstein’s assertion that nothing can travel faster than light, after carrying out another test.

HUMAN feet were walking in far more ancient times than previously thought, research has shown.

USING cannabis as a teenager or into young adulthood increases the risk of psychosis, experts have warned.

ALCOHOL may cut the risk of heart disease by almost a third in men, research suggested yesterday.

Pregnant women taking a drug used to treat epilepsy may be increasing their child’s chance of developing autism, research suggested today.

THE dominance of debt-laden Premier League clubs in Europe will soon come to an end as the global financial crisis takes hold, according to a leading football finance expert.

The Irish Government is to spend almost €7.5m to fund a Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool in honour of outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

HUMANS learned to walk upright in the trees, not on the open land, experts said yesterday.

IT is very likely the serial killer has a criminal past, a leading psychologist has said.

Police in Portugal should not use heavy-handed tactics to curb football hooliganism at Euro 2004, a psychologist said today.

HOSPITALS are exposing patients, including babies and young children, to high levels of a potentially dangerous chemical linked to cancer and infertility, new research has found.

Unionists are not trying to offend nationalists when they insist on the flying of the Union flag in Northern Ireland, a minister in the Stormont power sharing government insisted today.

Relatives of children whose organs were removed at Alder Hey have demanded an apology from the hospital and the University of Liverpool.