Conference “ambassadors” who helped generate €10m for Cork’s economy this year have been honoured amid renewed calls for delivery of the city’s long-awaited events centre.

The SmartProbe needle can give women a cancer all-clear immediately, thus sparing them an anxious wait and reducing a test backlog clogged with benign results, says Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.

An Irish university has unveiled plans to build a multi-million-euro world- class research centre to develop cutting-edge technology for training 21st-century medics.

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

ALMOST-invisible sensors being developed by Irish researchers could speed up the availability of lifesaving drugs and dramatically reduce the need for animal testing of cosmetics.