Another 23 jobs are to be created at one of the North’s top medical equipment companies.

Four children, missing from their home in Crumlin, Dublin since Wednesday afternoon have been found safe and well.

ADVANCES in the treatment of childhood leukaemia over the past 30 years have increased the cure rate to 85%, an international cancer conference in Dublin heard yesterday.

Two teenagers were tonight being questioned in connection with a fire attack on a car in Limerick which left two children fighting for their lives.

A BIG-HEARTED taxi driver is to swap the crowded streets of Waterford for the highways and byways of the country in an effort to raise funds for a very worthy appeal.

There is nothing more effective to tug on the heartstrings of the Irish public than a picture of the suffering of a sick child, especially if that child’s illness is treatable. It does not seem to make a different if it is the image of a child in Africa, Asia or Latin America.

United States prosecutors are to appeal against a 21-month jail sentence given to a former top Northern Ireland civil servant who tried to arrange sex with a 14-year-old girl, it emerged today.