A respiratory consultant has urged the government to protect the country’s stock of ventilators, many of which are manufactured here.

“No health system in the world could cope with a full blown outbreak of the virus,” said Dr Scally.

An Irish tropical diseases expert has warned there are “lots of unknowns” about the Zika virus epidemic.

Businesses’ own employees are a bigger threat to the security of their data than external attackers, new research shows.

With 80% of Irish firms falling victim to cyber crime last year, Peter O’Dwyer talks to a cyber security specialist who urges problem appraisal and straightforward solutions.

Travellers were urged today to get vaccinated before going abroad after one in four people revealed they fell ill on holiday.

Two former IRA men went to the Appeal Court in Belfast today to challenge an employment tribunal’s upholding of the Simon Community’s refusal to employ them because of their terrorist backgrounds.