Some 40% of children seen at the obesity clinic in Temple Street Children’s Hospital displayed withdrawn behaviour and psychological difficulties.

Cork City Ballet’s artistic director, Alan Foley, recently announced a long-cherished ambition: a full-time dance college opening in Sept 2014.

A public health drive is urging parents to reduce their children’s meal size, give them water instead of sugary drinks, and reduce the time they spend in front of a television or computer.

Almost half of Irish adults will be obese by 2030 if childhood overweight and obesity are not tackled now, medical experts have warned.

Yesterday morning, just after dealing with the latest details on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill and the report on the needless death of Savita Halappanavar, the very first word uttered by RTÉ’s Morning Ireland news reader was “Ryanair”.

Clinical dieticians say community-based childhood obesity services are either rare or non-existent.

One in four children in primary school in Ireland are either overweight or obese, according to a new programme at Temple Street Children's Hospital.

THE family of ambulance crash victim Gloria Corrigan is devastated that no criminal prosecution is to follow.

GOOD Samaritan Gloria Corrigan who died after being struck by an ambulance was yesterday described as a young woman who never thought twice about going to help someone in trouble.

A YOUNG family and a teenage babysitter were subjected to a prolonged period of savage violence yesterday.

TIM DONOVAN and his fiancée Sinead Murphy’s dream of owning a new house was dealt another severe blow yesterday by Mr McCreevy.