The health minister and the country’s chief medical officer will appear before a Dáil committee next week to outline the Government’s level of preparedness in the event of an ebola outbreak here. 

CHILDREN are “strangling” themselves to get high and then sharing the videos on the internet, campaign groups have warned.

WHEN millions of people started dying around the world in 1918, doctors and scientists didn’t have a clue what was happening. As the epidemic spread, it was blamed on everything from tiny plants to dusty books.

ON September 25, the Irish Examiner ran an article by Ian O’Sullivan titled: “Samantha kicks off battle against polio.”