A new laser treatment offers a cure for urinary incontinence, a condition actress Kate Winslet has helped to highlight by talking about her own experience. Áilín Quinlan reports

A post-pregnancy ailment once suffered in silence, urine leakage used to ruin social lives and restrict exercise. Now, more women are willing to discuss the issue, and cures are more readily available, writes Áilín Quinlan.

Monday

The Droopys Cain A1 525 was one of five finals on Saturday night’s 12-race programme at Curraheen Park and Young Legends showed her class with a terrific display for trainer Pat Kiely and owners Master Jack and Master Bryan Kiely, Dungarvan.

Some said the world would end, but for baby Zoey it marked the beginning.

Aidan Murphy completed the lineup for the Munster senior championship semi-finals when he beat Gary Daly by close to two bowls of odds in torrential rain at Carrigaline on Saturday.

TEAGASC food researcher Eimear Gallagher will discuss ways of adding value to grain at the Teagasc National Tillage Crops Forum will take place in the Keadeen Hotel, Newbridge, Co Kildare, on Wednesday next, September 7.

SHE’S a tiny bundle of joy they hope will be spoiled rotten.

MEET beautiful baby Lucy O’Mahony — living proof of how a hi-tech surgical robot is giving hope to thousands of women.

Cork University Maternity Hospital is the only hospital in Europe that performs both cancer and non-cancer procedures using advanced robotics, writes Dan Buckley

IN his letter headlined ‘AA roadwatch runs into verbal gridlock’ (May 20), Barry O’Reilly makes his point about AA Roadwatch-speak in a direct, as opposed to “rindabout” way.

THE letter from Ted Neville (‘Hard on the ear’, May 11) prompts me to air my own grievance, which is the soft ‘T’.

ROBOTIC assisted surgery allowing the most complex and delicate procedures to be performed through very small incisions is to be introduced at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

I WISH to convey our family’s appreciation to the multi-disciplinary staff of the maternity unit at St Finbarr’s Hospital, Cork, and the staff at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

IN attempting to prove value for money for locals and tourists alike, Ms Vickery (Irish Examiner letters, May 27) merely highlights a classic example of rip-off Ireland — the price of the half pint against the price of the pint.