“If it even gets one person to pick up the phone and make an appointment for a mammogram, then it will be good”.

More than 121,000 women have received free mammograms in 2009, it emerged today.

THE Government has to cut back on spending. Inevitably, there will be complaints about the programmes being cut.

THE WOMAN had rung the radio show from Cappoquin. There was gloom in west Waterford with the proposed liquidation of the local chicken processing plant, but the lady on the line was having none of it.

Senator Margaret Cox has resigned from Fianna Fáil, citing Government neglect of issues in the West as reason.