Hidden cost of beauty: millions of children working to produce ingredients...
Child-focussed humanitarian and development agency World Vision Ireland, has warned that most glossy beauty products are likely to contain ingredients gathered by children in...
Ten years of a good tipple with Graham Norton
Graham Norton and Invivo are celebrating ten years of a partnership that has produced an award winning wine and spirits range.
With more than 15...
New research sees reversal of online shopping trend
Good news for local retailers as new research from Penneys reveals that Irish consumers are returning to towns and shopping centres as the online...
5 tips on how to improve sleep
Turn2Me, a national mental health charity, has published 5 tips on how to improve sleep, on its website Turn2Me.ie. The charity stated that sleep...
HIQA recommends childhood chickenpox vaccine
HIQA, the Health Information and Quality Authority, has recommended adding the chickenpox vaccine to the routine childhood immunisation programme. It published its assessment last...
European heatwave: what’s causing it and is climate change to blame?
Emma Hill, Coventry University and Ben Vivian, Coventry University
Europe is currently in the midst of a heatwave. Italy, in particular, is expected to face...
Have you Limerick’s most beautiful front garden?
Green fingers? Applications are now being sought from the public in the Limerick ‘Going for Gold - the Most Beautiful Front Garden Competition’.
To qualify,...
Rights of seasonal & part-time workers
This week, Ciara O'Gorman, Development Manager with South Munster Citizens Information Service outlines some of the rights and entitlements of seasonal and part-time workers.
A...
Pat Smullen Chair in Pancreatic Cancer announced for UCD
Cancer Trials Ireland, the national organisation dedicated to advancing cancer clinical trials, has this week announced the creation of the Pat Smullen Chair in...
Hospital’s cancer trial a ‘game changer’ in battle against disease
Cancer doctors are hoping a lifesaving trial at a Cork hospital which is reducing patients’ wait for genetic testing from two years to just...
