Death rates from breast cancer are highest in Waterford, the suicide rate in Cork City outstrips anywhere else, and Limerick City has the highest infant mortality rate.

BY PUTTING cows on a radical diet scientists believe they can improve the health of milk and dairy consumers.

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

THE conviction rate for people who tested positive for driving over the legal alcohol limit has fallen to its lowest level since 1999.