On Tuesday, 534 people were awaiting beds on trolleys in Irish hospitals

Yoghurt with Honey, Dates and Almonds; and how to make your own kefir

John Milner Barry, a Cork medical practitioner, was an early vaccination convert in Ireland after he recognised in 1800 that variolation was not effective enough to eradicate smallpox, writes Laurence Geary of UCC's History Department

Fiann Ó Nualláin says there are dozens of foods that can help you fight off the armies of bacteria and viruses that attack your system in winter.