James Jordan owed more than €1m in unpaid taxes and penalties, and has received 240 hours of community service.

SENIOR health managers declined to discuss at a public forum one of the country’s worst outbreaks of TB in recent years.

ALL schools without water should close, and people should continue to wash their hands to prevent the spread of swine flu, a public health expert has warned.

EXPERTS in public health medicine, disease surveillance and respiratory illness will gather in Cork on Monday night to address parents of children attending two creches where 19 people have been diagnosed with TB.