The unit will be comprised of 100 Gardaí, sergeants and inspectors, working a two-rota system of 12-hour shifts.

Our understanding of how coronavirus works through a community is bound to change as more resources are focused on the problem. In the interim, how ever long that might be, the outbreak offers a perfect plot line for one of those Hollywood propaganda pieces dressed as a thriller where the du jour action hero comes to the rescue and, as an aside, uncovers a dastardly right-wing plot.

Is it too much to hope that an important public health matter, such as Lyme disease, will be an issue in the general election? There’s been a worrying reluctance by the authorities to face up to the extent of the disease here.

A ten-fold increase in the debilitating disease should have alarm bells ringing, writes Donal Hickey, especially as some experts believe the real rate is even higher.

There has been a ten-fold increase in the incidence of Lyme disease in the Cork/Kerry region alone, amid concerns the extent of the disease nationally is being hugely underestimated.

A powerful performance from Luke Swan left Kilkenny in a flap as the Dublin minor hurlers blasted their way to Leinster glory.

A third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

Almost a third of people living with HIV are unaware they carry the infection, new research has revealed.

SEVENTY years ago Billy Conn, weighing 174 pounds and fighting out of East Liberty, Pittsburgh, took on the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, for the heavyweight title.

THE burden of keeping the secret of living with HIV means people are increasingly experiencing suicidal thoughts, depression and low self-esteem issues, experts have said.

A DRUG company study claims to prove it makes economic sense for Ireland to begin a national vaccination programme against cervical cancer.

An explosion followed by a raging fire ripped through a plastics factory in Kinston, North Carolina tonight, killing at least eight people and sending black, acrid smoke pouring across the countryside. Others were feared trapped in the burning ruins.