The Briefing - Your Monday morning news catch up
Cork family law hearings are a struggle for all involved, writes Michael Clifford.
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Children with potentially fatal food allergies are forced to wait up to three years to be tested because hospital screening services cannot cope with demand.
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Exposure to food and everyday electronic, cosmetic, and plastic products containing hormone-disrupting chemicals has been linked to a rise in serious illnesses and is costing Ireland €5.8bn a year.
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Women’s health is being increasingly threatened by the "over-medicalisation" of pregnancy in both poorer parts of the world and high-income countries such as the UK, say experts.
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If EU leaders back Jean- Claude Juncker for the post of European Commission president this week it would be "flicking two fingers" at voters across the continent who had expressed concerns about Brussels, said British MP Iain Duncan Smith.
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A home win slipped from Ireland’s grasp at Fota Island as Graeme McDowell’s putter went cold but that was all that was missing from a successful 2014 Irish Open, won in impressive style by Finland’s Mikko Ilonen.
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Steven Gerrard has called on Harry Redknapp to name and shame the ex-Tottenham stars who he claims skipped England duty.
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One of the European Central Bank’s chief decision-makers has all-but ruled out any rise in the eurozone’s key benchmark interest rate — from its current record low — for at least two years.
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VIEWPOINTS
A friend of mine is known as Johnny A&E. He doesn’t drink much or very often, but once or twice a year when he gets properly hammered — he’s a birthdays and Christmas kind of drunk — he always ends up in A&E.
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SHOWBIZ
Nigella Lawson's US travel ban has reportedly been lifted.
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Cork is keeping its bonfire night safe thanks to a local initiative, writes Ellie O’Byrne
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The sister of a young man who died recently has issued an emotional appeal to thieves to return treasured personal items they stole from her mother's car as she visited his grave today.
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