A Cork consultant today ditches his white coat and stethoscope for cycling shorts and a helmet as he begins training for a biking challenge from Dublin to Galway.

Patients at Cork’s biggest hospital can only receive one named visitor a day as hospital management attempt to ensure a swine flu outbreak doesn’t spread.

A highly contagious flu virus that carries serious implications for sick patients has forced another major hospital to drastically curtail visitor numbers.

Passengers on the American Airlines plane that overshot the runway in Jamaica and stopped just seconds away from the sea told of their terrifying ordeal today.

Kanye West will voice a character in an episode of 'Family Guy' spin-off 'The Cleveland Show'.