Ads marketing fatty foods to young people must be urgently restricted to tackle the growing problem of childhood obesity, it was claimed today.

FOUR academics at University College Cork have been promoted in the past year under a controversial scheme to retain staff who have been offered jobs by other colleges.

OBESITY will continue to be a problem for at least the next three generations, a leading food scientist predicted yesterday.

THE heads of the country’s universities are to come together next month to try and reach an agreement to prevent them poaching key staff from each other.