The woman at the centre of the swine flu vaccine case, Aoife Bennett, has told of her shock at the “adversarial” nature of the court case which lasted 21 days.

The State has “totally mismanaged” the issue of children who claim to suffer from narcolepsy after being vaccinated for swine flu, according to the father of one such patient.

As part of the settlement, the student teacher will also have her huge legal costs bill believed to run in to millions of euro paid.

The father of a woman who claims she developed narcolepsy after she got the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine said he and his wife wanted to be responsible citizens when they had their daughter vaccinated.

A mother has told the High Court if she had known then what she knows now about the swine flu vaccine, she would not have given consent for her daughter to get it.

Pharmaceutical company Glaxosmithkline, which supplied the Pandemrix vaccine during the threatened swine flu pandemic, has told the High Court no causal link has been established between the vaccine and the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

The swine flu has officially returned to Ireland.

The HSE is warning that a number of people have already died as swine flu returns to Ireland.

For Chinese authorities, struggling with the rapid spread of African swine fever, a disease that’s threatening to devastate the world’s largest pig industry, Russia’s number-one pork producer has the answer: get bigger and cleaner, or get out.

Parents suing the state over side-effects from a swine flu vaccine say that the jab was rushed into use before getting full approval.

The State Claims Agency (SCA) has paid out €3.6m on behalf of the State to child sex abuse victims concerning 587 separate claims of historical child sex abuse since 2008.

A coroner has concluded it is "most likely" that a nursery nurse developed the sleep disorder narcolepsy as a result of receiving a swine flu vaccination.

Limerick teenager Kellie O'Gorman says she feels "as though I have lost a part of me and I'm still grieving the loss of my independence and freedom".

Pregnant women and high risk patients are being urged to get the flu vaccine.

The HSE has confirmed a child has died from flu at a Dublin hospital.

Two people are being treated in hospital after contracting swine flu.

A swine flu virus that has killed more than 1,200 in India may be more dangerous than the strain responsible for the 2009 pandemic, scientists have warned.

A highly contagious flu virus that carries serious implications for sick patients has forced another major hospital to drastically curtail visitor numbers.

A Belfast schoolboy has been diagnosed with swine flu.

The flu outbreak has claimed a total of 15 lives this winter. Three more deaths have been reported in the last week.

A study into swine-flu transmission has found that boys will generally infect boys, while girls mainly pass the virus to other girls.

It is being reported that another person has died from swine flu in Ireland.

Two young children with swine flu have died in the North today.

A two-year-old boy with swine flu has died in the North.

The HSE is reiterating its call for people in at risk groups to get the flu vaccine.

Two people have died in the last week after suffering from flu, health chiefs revealed today.

Visiting restrictions have been put in place at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick due to an increase in H1N1 flu cases at the hospital.

GPs and emergency units are continuing to feel the strain today as swine flu spreads.

The HSE has confirmed its ordered an extra 100,000 seasonal flu vaccines to help combat the swine flu virus.

There is an urgent call this weekend for the Government to reopen closed hospital wards in a bid to prevent a major swine flu crisis.

Health chiefs confirmed 26 patients were tonight being treated in intensive care units for flu.

The number of swine flu cases recorded in the country has doubled in the past week, with 26 people currently being treated in intensive care units.

Eleven more people have died from flu across the UK, taking the total to 50, the Health Protection Agency said today.

The HSE has ordered additional stocks of the flu jab.

Around 25 elective surgical procedures have been cancelled at Galway University Hospital due to a spike in seasonal and swine flu.

The HSE is urging anyone who has not already received the seasonal flu vaccine - which protects against the H1N1 strain - to get it.

A father died of suspected swine flu just 10 days after his wedding.

The HSE is advising people to get the flu vaccine, which this year also protects against swine flu.

Doctors at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin are attempting to contain an outbreak of swine flu.

Two thirds of the swine flu vaccine is said to remain unused - as the national swine flu vaccination programme comes to an end this week.

Experts will investigate the World Health Organisation's response to the swine flu outbreak and probably examine whether it could have been clearer when it declared a pandemic of what turned out to be a relatively mild disease.

Two more people have died from swine flu in Ireland.