Asthma Society of Ireland
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From dustbusters to a soda fix: 20 health hacks for your home
- Homes & Property
- January 19, 2019, 00:00
It’s mid-January and most of us are either successfully winning with our New Year’s resolutions or floundering at the half-way line and wondering whet(...)

Asthma: ‘It’s not taken seriously. This is killing people’
- Health & Family
- October 6, 2018, 08:01
Ciara Kelly’s mother, Emer, suffered from asthma since childhood and was “always breathless”, Ciara recalls. Asthma attacks came “almost monthly” and (...)

Increasing fatalities due to asthma leave experts baffled
- Health & Family
- October 6, 2018, 07:01
Deaths from asthma in Ireland have increased by 40 per cent while an inquiry to help shed light on why deaths are occurring has been rejected by the H(...)

Runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, headache . . . good weather not to everyone's liking
- Health & Family
- June 29, 2018, 06:01
This week’s unprecedented heatwave has been joyfully welcomed by the Irish population – who have (if they could) spent the week lying on beaches, walk(...)

Asthma: Lessons that won’t take your breath away
- Health & Family
- May 1, 2018, 06:01
On the back of every classroom door in St Brigid’s Girls’ National School in Killester, Dublin, there is a notice about the “Five-step rule” for manag(...)

Chief executive’s salary was 10% of charity's total spending, Dáil told
- Oireachtas
- January 17, 2018, 12:46
The chief executive of a charity received a salary that accounted for more than 10 per cent of the organisation’s total expenditure, the Dáil was told(...)

More tree cover reduces rate of asthma attacks, study finds
- Environment
- November 17, 2017, 01:00
Living in a leafy suburb may do more than just boost property prices, as a new study has found that having more trees in urban areas can help to reduc(...)

Ex-senator Averil Power appointed Irish Cancer Society chief
- Health
- October 3, 2017, 12:54
Former Fianna Fáil senator Averil Power has been appointed chief executive of the Irish Cancer Society. Ms Power ran unsuccessfully for a Dáil seat (...)

Exercise can take your breath away – for all the wrong reasons
- Fitness
- December 13, 2016, 07:00
The current women’s marathon world record of 2:15:25 was set by Paula Radcliffe at the 2003 London Marathon. Radcliffe was diagnosed with asthma at th(...)

NuWave Sensors tracks indoor air quality for asthmatics
- Health & Family
- May 3, 2016, 06:00
How often do you think about the air you breathe? If it is not causing you problems, then it probably doesn’t cross your mind. But if you have asthma (...)