Irene Halpin Long meets a class of book lovers in Cork, and also chats to established authors about what they read as children.

The Glenisk and Cloughjordan House initiative, a ‘Chef Star’ competition for secondary school students, is aimed at finding Ireland’s best student chef.

Numerous cases of doctors working continuous 36-hour shifts and 100-hour-plus weeks is putting their lives and health, as well as the lives of their patients, at risk, the European Commission has warned.

The mother of a junior doctor who took her own life described her daughter’s working hours as “immoral” following an inquest.