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The pandemic ‘disrupted every single part of the cancer care continuum from screening to diagnostics to treatment and end-of-life care,’ Averil Power said. Photograph: iStock
More late-stage cancers being diagnosed after screening delays, charity says

Higher numbers of late-stage cancers are being diagnosed as a result of screening delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish Cancer Society has(...)

Up to 40 per cent of emissions from open fires remain in the home, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Sitting in front of open fire as harmful to lungs as rush-hour traffic fumes

Sitting in front of an open fire is as dangerous for your lungs as being exposed to rush-hour traffic, health charities have warned. A survey carried(...)

Informing the public about what to do to protect themselves from extreme weather events will become essential as flash floods, storms, cold snaps and heatwaves become more frequent. Photograph: Getty Images
Turbulent times: how to stay healthy in a warmed-up world

The idea that the impacts of climate change will only be felt by future generations has been knocked on the head by extreme weather events around the (...)

Irish Cancer Society chief executive Averil Power, Minister for Health Simon Harris and Irish Heart Foundation chief executive Tim Collins at the launch of the new research. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Advertising of e-cigarettes to be restricted, Harris says

Advertising of e-cigarettes is to be restricted in order to limit the exposure of young people to them, Minister for Health Simon Harris has confirme(...)

Aoife McGivney (right) launches the Irish Heart Foundation’s free CPR training programme with Tim Collins, CEO of the charity. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Free CPR training to be offered to 100,000 people in new programme

More than 100,000 people across Ireland are to be trained to treat heart attack victims under a new community training programme. The programme, whic(...)

Irish Heart Foundation chief executive Tim Collins, parent advocate Siobhan Donohue and keynote speaker Dan Parker at the charity’s launch event on Wednesday. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Seven out of 10 adults ‘support blanket ban on junk food advertising’

More than seven out of 10 adults in Ireland support a blanket ban on the advertising of unhealthy food and drink products to children, research for th(...)

Tadhg Coakley in action for Cork against Kilkenny in the 1979 All-Ireland minor hurling final.
Coakley uses hurling background to weave a novel tale

“A friend of mine from Louth asked me if Cork get to the final in the novel and I said ‘They do’ so he said ‘So it’s fiction’. Then he asked me do Cor(...)

The president of Toyota Motor Corporation, Akio Toyoda, speaks about the e-Palette at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Monday. Photograph: Larry W Smith/EPA
Toyota unveils customisable self-driving e-Palette vehicle

Toyota Motor, trying to transform itself into a leader of the new driverless economy, unveiled both the concept vehicle and the big-name partners to m(...)

DIT academic staff have written to Prof Brian Norton saying they fear the complicated merger will be botched. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
DIT academics criticise institute’s president over merger

Senior academic staff at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) have accused its president of failing to take seriously their concerns about plans t(...)

Communicorp owns Newstalk and Today FM, as well as Spin 1038 and Dublin’s 98FM. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Caroline Reynolds to leave Communicorp at end of August

Communicorp’s chief operating officer Caroline Reynolds is set to depart the Denis O’Brien-owned radio group at the end of the month. It is understoo(...)

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