After one of their classmates died from an asthma attack, students from a Limerick secondary school were inspired to raise awareness about the condition.

A cure for asthma could be available in five years, according to scientists who believe they have found the root cause of the condition.

Asthma sufferers have hit out at Ireland’s “one size fits all” system of managing the condition, saying it is not treated seriously enough.

One in every two people with asthma put their lives at risk because their asthma is out of control.

Parents of children with asthma have been found wanting when it comes to managing the condition, evidenced by the almost one in eight who had to bring their child to the emergency department last year.

A national asthma programme could reduce the €501m annual cost of asthma-related illness to the State.

New ways to reduce the cost of asthma-related illnesses to the Irish state will be outlined in a report being unveiled by the Asthma Society of Ireland later today.

The Asthma Society of Ireland has said that a nationwide ban on 'smoky coal' would be a major boost for the country's 470,000 asthma sufferers.

THE majority of women who access homeless services have histories of violent victimisation, often spanning from childhood, the preliminary findings of research on women and homelessness has found.

Almost 250 women desperate to escape a violent partner were turned away by an overstretched charity last year.

DEMAND for services provided by a domestic violence charity was so high last year that it could only respond to two out of five cries for help.

THE dramatic increase in the number of women seeking help for domestic violence is alarming.

TWO out of every five enquiries to a domestic violence refuge had to be turned down last year because the facility was full, the head of Sonas Housing has said.

A new postcard campaign in North Dublin aims to give women suffering from domestic abuse the information they need to get help.

DEMAND for bed spaces in a new domestic violence refuge was so high in the last six months that it could only respond to just one in four cries for help.

Applications for places at a domestic violence housing service more than doubled in two years, it was revealed today.

ALMOST 90% of women suffering domestic violence do not leave home because they have nowhere to go, it has been claimed.

A Cavan man has been found guilty of murdering a mother of one by stabbing her to death on the front lawn of her home a day after she gave evidence in court against a friend of his.

A man who witnessed his friend being stabbed to death on the front lawn of her home has told a court he saw her attacker standing over her and striking her while saying “don’t f*** with us."