People will have to travel further and wait longer for an appointment with a GP in rural areas, as more practices are abandoned, a doctors’ group has warned.

Hundreds of doctors protested outside the Dáil yesterday over cutbacks that have closed general practices and forced newly qualified GPs to go abroad to work.

It’s traditional for school children to attend a camp during the holidays, but there are equivalents for adults now, teaching everything from scriptwriting to beekeeping and sailing, says Arlene Harris.

A circus performer died last night when a trapeze stunt went tragically wrong.