Bus and truck drivers can continue to drive with well-managed health conditions under new guidelines developed by the Road Safety Authority and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

The Road Safety Authority has reassured elderly motorists and drivers with a medical condition that new guidelines on medical fitness are not designed to put them off the road.

The final cost of the Mahon Tribunal could top €250m and see lawyers and witnesses claim fees for years to come.

A father of one who robbed the shop across the road from his own home in "one of the silliest" crimes to watch on CCTV footage has been sentenced to four years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB) recently issued an opinion which recommended that frozen IVF embryos could be destroyed for research to generate human embryonic stem cell lines.

THE Government has no plans to crack down on property speculators, despite suggestions by Housing Minister Noel Ahern that they should be “taxed out of existence”.

FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny has done the right thing by reading sections of the draft report on the Leas Cross nursing home scandal into the Dáil record.

It is more than a year since an RTÉ Prime Time Special highlighted appalling scenes of neglect and abuse at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Swords, County Dublin.

THE recent tributes to Mick Doyle revealed his many contributions to Ireland.

MANDATORY health screening of older people before renewing their driving licence can cause higher death rates among the elderly, a doctor has claimed.