Dublin might be waiting to take on Kerry in Sunday’s All Ireland Football final but it was a Mayo man who was beaming brightly at Carton House yesterday as Royal Dublin ended their 47-year wait for victory in the AIG Barton Shield.

A pioneering cancer treatment, essentially surgery without a scalpel, is showing substantial benefits for patients, including increased life expectancy, a new Irish study has shown.

Breakthrough research by an Irish cancer team is likely to have global implications for the manner in which radiotherapy treatment is delivered to some patients, according to doctors leading the clinical trial.

IRELAND will need at least an extra 1,000 GPs to facilitate Government plans to overhaul the health service, a major conference on health reform heard yesterday.

CHARLIE HAUGHEY may have been lecturing the nation about living beyond its means but he didn’t give a second thought to lunching beyond his department’s means.

Workers in the North are twice as likely to die at work than staff in other UK regions because of a high accident rate, a new report revealed today.

The decline in the North's construction jobs has come to a halt, it was revealed today.

More than 1,300 construction workers joined the dole queues in the North over the last three months, industry representatives today.

Ambitious plans for a new £180m (€196m) housing development on the hills above Belfast were unveiled today.

GARDAÍ believe vandals were behind the destruction of six valuable sculling boats at the National Rowing Centre in Cork.

The number of unemployed construction workers in the North is expected to top 30,000 by the summer, it was claimed today.

Thefts from vehicles in the North have shot up by over 5% in the past year and Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins today launched a campaign to try to reverse the trend.

More than 22,000 construction and engineering jobs could be lost in the North next year if economic conditions don’t improve, industry representatives warned today.

LESS than one-third of men know age is the single biggest risk factor in developing prostate cancer, health chiefs revealed yesterday.

Less than one third of men know age is the single biggest risk factor in developing prostate cancer, it emerged today.

Paul Hanagan was the man to follow at Newcastle as he completed a 21-1 double aboard Resounding Glory and Redford.

A REVOLUTIONARY lung cancer therapy, now available in Ireland for the first time, should boost cure rates and reduce healing times.

CANCER patients are expected to be given a better chance of survival after the arrival of breakthrough technology in Ireland.

One of Ireland’s top cancer hospitals is to treat 700 more patients a year with new state-of-the-art technology, it was announced today.

IRISHMEN still are not taking heed of health advice and do not know the cancers from which they are most at risk, according to a survey published yesterday.

Local owner John Armstrong realised a lifetime ambition when bargain buy Toldo carried his colours to victory in the £200,000 John Smith’s Northumberland Plate at Newcastle.

Health experts today demanded a thorough assessment of treatment for prostate cancer sufferers as a study showed one in 14 men in Ireland will be diagnosed with the disease during their lives.

GETTING the best medical care for prostate cancer depends on where you go to be treated for the disease, the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) claimed yesterday.

Minister of Health Mary Harney has declared 2,000 extra consultants are needed to meet demand for treatment for prostate cancer in our hospitals.

A LEADING specialist has warned of a cancer time-bomb if the Government fails to rapidly invest in the expansion of radiotherapy services.

Tánaiste Mary Harney today defended her decision not to build a cancer treatment centre for people in the north-west.

A man sought by detectives after the murder of his wife took his own life by jumping in front of a train, police confirmed tonight.

Police are investigating a possible link between a woman’s murder and the death of a man on a Co Antrim railway line, it was confirmed today.

A DOCTORS’ representative has said if a man in his 30s came to his surgery seeking a screening for prostate cancer he would “tell him to get lost,” and that “it was a waste of resources”.

CELEBRITY chef Conrad Gallagher is due to be released from Cloverhill Prison today as he awaits trial on criminal charges of stealing valuable paintings from his own restaurant.