An award of €67,500 damages to a Dunnes Stores worker over an arm injury suffered when lifting a 10kg bag of potatoes has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

IRISH research could lead to a range of treatments for a muscle-wasting disease affecting dozens of boys in this country alone.

FEWER Irish women travelled to Britain to have an abortion last year compared with 2003, according to statistics from the British Department of Health.