A SENIOR Teagasc executive, Gerry Scully, has been elected president of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA). He takes over from Dr Dermot Ruane of UCD, whose term of office expired in mid-September.

THE Irish child who has undergone pioneering surgery in the US to help him walk for the first time yesterday got his very first pair of shoes.

AN Irish child has become the youngest person in the world to undergo pioneering surgery, which may help him walk for the first time.