Paying up-front for medical research would encourage innovation and end costly monopolies by allowing generic competition to flourish, according to Diarmaid McDonald and Dr Kieran Harkin

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Anabolic steroids, increasingly popular among young males to obtain a pumped-up physique, accounted for more than half of the 60,000 counterfeit units of medicine seized in a single week by Irish enforcement agencies in partnership with the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).

Several children were rescued after getting into difficulty in the seas off a Co Donegal beach.