Women’s hockey international: Germany 3 ( Keibel, Huse, Schroder) - Ireland 1 (Russell)

Graham Shaw has his sights set on World Cup qualification after his Ireland side cruised to a World League 2 title in Kuala Lumpur.

What the Leaving Cert is really all about... dreams, rich daddies, rest, Snapchat, the exam diary, heartbreak, an unforgiving media... all great preparation life, writes Colm O’Regan

With flu now “actively” circulating in the community the HSE is urging those at risk to get vaccinated.

An Irish start-up firm is eyeing global airline and travel markets for its predictive marketing software, writes Trish Dromey.

Nearly 18,500 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) worth $1.7trn (€1.28trn) have been completed this year.

Holland’s ‘Mr Backhand’ lived up to his name to break Irish hearts as the world number three side snatched a late 2-1 TriFinance EuroHockey Nations Championships win over the green machine in Boom, Belgium yesterday.

Anna O’Flanagan’s stylish hat-trick left Pegasus reeling as UCD made a serious statement of intent with a 5-2 Irish Senior Cup quarter-final victory at Belfield.

Slieve Bloom Way: Paul’s lane loop, Cadamstown, Co Offaly

Author Maeve Binchy will be remembered for her humanity and great sense of humour, says Declan Burke

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Children and teenagers who have been given a flu vaccine are at greater risk of developing narcolepsy, research has found.

As a raunchy trilogy climbs the US bestseller lists, Declan Burke asks Irish writers if they’ll be spicing up their output

THE flu claimed 32 lives last year, tuberculosis (TB) claimed 10, and the number of measles cases jumped an alarming 149% according to a new report.

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BARRY OWENS’ Fermanagh side made a winning start to their campaign at Dr Cullen Park in comfortable fashion. The two-time All Star was immense in shutting down Thomas Walsh and Brendan Murphy, who both had fruitless stints at full-forward.

ABOUT 4% of the population have been infected with swine flu, the country’s public health watchdog has confirmed. And it looks as if the initial wave of the pandemic has peaked, the Health Protection Surveillance Centres said.

THE question of whether people will be charged by GPs to administer the human swine flu vaccine has not yet been discussed, it emerged yesterday.

AROUND 1,500 people visited GPs last week with suspected swine flu and the number will continue to rise, a senior public health specialist has revealed.

AS Ireland prepares for a swine flu pandemic the State’s disease monitoring watchdog says GPs are failing to ensure that their older patients are vaccinated against the seasonal flu.

A SENIOR public health specialist has expressed concern that family doctors are not passing on sufficient information to the health authorities about the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Ireland.

DESPITE a rise in the uptake of the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), the number of mumps cases exceeded 1,300 at the end of 2008 — more than nine times the number reported in 2007.

UP TO 5,000 people could die, with 14,000 possibly requiring hospitalisation when the next flu pandemic hits Ireland, health experts warned yesterday.

MENINGITIS C has almost been eradicated since a national vaccination programme was implemented three years ago.

FOUR children in the last three years were born here with syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease they inherited from their mothers.

UDAY and Qusay? “The fools, the fools, the have left us our Fedayeen dead. As long as Iraq holds these graves she will never be at peace.”

The head of the National Disease Surveillance Centre today defended a plan by doctors to escalate industrial action in their row with the Government.