Marriage proposals from men seeking good wives; butter, milk and potatoes as part payment of wages - such are the anecdotes that populate the pages of a new social history documenting the colourful history of the country's first nurses' trade union.

WITH cancer cases predicted to double by 2020 from 2000 levels, an expert group on behalf of the Health Research Board has demanded a national cancer biobank be set up as soon as possible to tackle the upsurge.

WITH cancer cases predicted to double by 2020 from 2000 levels, an expert group on behalf of the Health Research Board has demanded a national cancer biobank be set up as soon as possible to tackle the upsurge.