Children with endocrine disorders that could potentially affect growth and development are struggling to access timely care, a hospital consultant has warned.

The accuracy of waiting list figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has been called into question by a consultant who said the official figures were a “tenfold under-estimation” of the actual situation vis-a-vis his own specialty.

As Ireland prepares give shelter to some 3,500 refugees from the Middle East and Africa, Edwin McGreal travelled to our most cosmopolitan town to see what we can learn about integration from Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo

A Glee Club from the Philippines were last night awarded the Fleischmann International Trophy on the last day of the Cork International Choral Festival.