It’s a service normally associated with fast-food joints. But now an Irish retailer has opened what it claims is Cork’s first drive-through supermarket.

A social welfare inspector said he found it incredible that a director of a taxi company believed he was entitled to receive jobseeker’s allowance payments while running a company.

Teenage girls struggling with eating disorders do not realise the “knife-edge” danger they face from an imbalance of electrolytes, a coroner warned yesterday.

REGULATIONS governing the use of controversial stem cell therapies will be introduced within a matter of months, Finance Minister Brian Cowen said last night.

Detectives today arrested a convicted child sex offender who had been on the run for three weeks.