A Garda sergeant has told the High Court he did not see any assaults by gardaí on three local men during a protest against the Shell Corrib gas refinery in north Mayo.

The Connemara Mussel Festival (May 1-3) picked up one hell of an accolade last year.

Eight Irish scientists have been awarded a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant, worth up to €2m each, towards ambitious high-risk, high-gain projects, or “blue sky research”.

Consuming too much salt leads to more than 1.6m heart disease-related deaths around the world each year, research suggests.

In the 1960s, Britain was famously exhorted to go to work on an egg. Within a few years, however, its people were being told eating eggs was bad for them. Yet, in more recent times, the humble boiled egg has again been rehabilitated. After that, butter was in the firing line and researchers claimed too much was bad for your cholesterol. But before long, butter too was declared to be good for you.

SUMMER 2014 seems to be getting better and better to the extent that eating outside seems to have become the norm in our house.

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SMOKING, poor diet, an expanded waistline and stress are included in a check-list of 10 risk factors most closely associated with stroke, experts have revealed.

Smoking, poor diet and an expanded waistline are included in a check-list of 10 risk factors most closely associated with stroke, experts revealed today.

THE area of special needs will not be affected by any budgetary cuts, Education and Science Minister Batt O’Keeffe declared yesterday.

Afghan and Nato officials say a bomb attack against a convoy of international troops has wounded four soldiers and four Afghans.

A FOUNDATION that provides a wide range of services for 280 children and adults with special needs on both sides of the Cork-Limerick border will go to the dogs in Cork on Thursday night to raise funds.

ACCORDING to media reports, the Irish Human Rights Commission has made a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination as follows: “That the Government should introduce legislation to define the circumstances in which abortion can currently be legally carried out in Ireland.”

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