WOMEN who breastfeed their babies could protect themselves against heart attacks and stroke, research out yesterday suggests.

IN EVERY town in every part of this sprawling country, you can find a faceless sprawling strip mall.

YESTERDAY, more than a billion Christians around the world marked the gravest observance on their calendar, Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross.

CORK’s docklands provides a unique opportunity for the aggressive development of a major financial services industry in the region, Cork Chamber president Joe Gantly believes.

NEW techniques being developed at the University of Limerick are helping surgeons deal with complicated procedures such as brain aneurysms.

A REVOLUTIONARY bypass graft invented at the University of Limerick was hailed at a world medical conference yesterday by top surgeons.

For the first time, US scientists have rebuilt a complex human organ, the bladder, using live tissue grown in the lab – a breakthrough that could hold exciting promise for one day regenerating ailing hearts and other organs.

South Korean researcher Hwang Woo-suk stood by his purported breakthroughs in stem cell technology today despite accusations he falsified key evidence.

A doctor who provided human eggs for research by cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-suk claimed today that the South Korean scientist admitted most of the stem cells he produced and documented in a journal article were faked, according to news reports.

Irish society must do all it can to help reduce the incidence of suicide, President Mary McAleese urged tonight.