A nursing home faces “a real possibility of closure” after the National Roads Authority succeeded, on grounds of traffic safety, in overturning planning approval for an extension.

January may seem the perfect time for a detox, but is there any scientific basis behind the concept of washing away our calorific sins, asks Sharon Ní Chonchúir.

The idea of whether it is possible to be addicted to certain foods is being explored at a public meeting in Dublin today.

Moves to force restaurants to display calorie counts on menus will cost the industry €110m a year, according to the Restaurant Association of Ireland.

Health problems affecting many adults here may be due to how they were fed as babies, it has emerged.

A doctor with the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has said that health problems that affect many adults in Ireland may be down to how they were fed as babies.

Restaurants and fast food outlets are being asked to voluntarily advertise the calorie count of their food — or face legislation forcing them to do so.

Restaurants are being asked to comply with new voluntary regulations which would see calories displayed on menus.

Parents and childcare providers have been reminded of the importance of monitoring their children carefully after an inquest heard last week how a toddler died after choking on a popcorn kernel.

Travellers made homeless after being evicted from an illegal site in the UK are set to ask senior judges to rule that they have a right to be re-homed in caravans or offered pitches.

ELDERLY Traveller Mary Flynn lost her appeal yesterday to challenge her eviction from Britain’s biggest illegal Travellers’ site.

RESIDENTS of Britain’s biggest illegal Travellers’ site yesterday won a last-minute injunction temporarily halting moves to evict them from their homes.

A showdown between bailiffs and residents promises tense and angry scenes today as scores of families are evicted from the UK’s biggest illegal travellers’ site.

Lawyers today failed in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the eviction of some Irish families from the UK’s largest unauthorised Traveller site.

A group of Irish Travellers are today fighting eviction from Britain's biggest encampment.

ONLINE marketing via social networks will play a greater role in future National Dairy Council (NDC) efforts to promote the health benefits of milk to younger consumers.

PARENTS who ignore HSE calls to ensure their babies are given a daily vitamin D supplement are putting their children at risk of developing serious, debilitating bone deformities, it has been claimed.

A RANGE of courses for unemployed professionals is already yielding work for students who returned to study at Cork Institute of Technology.

HEALTH benefits from drinking milk for people aged 65+ represent a huge sales and marketing opportunity all across the European Union for Irish dairy producers, says Senator Feargal Quinn.

HUNDREDS of foods and supplements readily available in Irish stores are being investigated for falsely claiming they provide scientifically proven health benefits.

QUICK thinking by the parents of a woman targeted in a tiger kidnapping in Co Galway resulted in gardaí foiling the raiders, it emerged yesterday.

THE health benefits of hundreds of Irish food products are to be thoroughly examined by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as part of an international set of standards for food labelling.

IRISH consumers spent €66 million on organic food in 2006 according to figures revealed yesterday, but scientists are warning that it could be a waste of money.

FOOD producers who claim that their products have specific health benefits will have to prove them or drop them under EU legislation being prepared, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warned yesterday.

RICKETS, a disease thought to have been eradicated at the end of the last World War, has re-emerged in Ireland in infants suffering from a lack of vitamin D.

A NEW breast cancer drug shown to cut the risk of the disease returning by almost a third is available in Ireland, it was learned yesterday.