THE Irish Sport Council has launched a pioneering iPhone app that will enable athletes to check if any medications they intend to use are banned.

GAS board staff will be reading more than meters over the next six months as they devote their energy to help local children improve their literacy skills.

TOP rugby schools were hit with a stark warning last night from the chairman of the Irish Anti-Doping Unit that providing food supplements to adolescents was likely to lead to major health and injury issues for players in the long term.

THE Irish Sports Council’s anti-doping programme manager, Dr Una May, has warned drugs cheats will be hunted down and punished through more sophisticated testing and profiling technology.

A record 1,135 anti-doping tests were carried out on Irish sports men and women last year, it emerged today.

GARETH TURNBULL won’t be out of pocket as a result of the lengthy battle to clear his name after testing positive for a banned substance in 2005, the Irish Sports Council confirmed yesterday.

PROJECTS worth hundreds of millions of euro are in the pipeline for County Cork, as the Celtic Tiger shows no signs of slowing down.

IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL chief executive John Treacy reiterated that it is the responsibility of the GAA and other national governing bodies to provide the proper education on drugs and anti-doping procedures to their members.

Irish sport has been given a clean bill of health by our anti-doping tests.

IRISH middle distance runner Geraldine Hendricken has been banned from competition for two years, following confirmation last night that she tested positive for banned substances.

THE ERC Appeal committee which overturned Frankie Sheahan’s two-year ban delivered a stinging rebuke and a €5,000 fine to the player and the Munster management.

A LANDMARK clinical trial has confirmed for the first time that older people can reduce the risk of dying from heart disease by 24% by using the cholestrol-lowering medicine pravastatin.