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The head of the National Cancer Control Programme should be included on the HSE Leadership Team to ensure cancer treatment receives the focus required, Senator Seán Kyne has said.

Comprising 15,000 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog and mountainous terrain, Wild Nephin National Park, Co Mayo is a visiting destination that is unlike any other.

Award winning nature photographer Tina Claffey, from Offaly, celebrates the minutiae of our Midland habitats through her macro lens, her photographs capture what the naked eye cannot see and giving a unique perspective of the flora and fauna of raised bogs and wet woodlands.

Ports such as Galway and Ros an Mhíl need to be developed quickly if the country is to meet offshore wind energy targets, a study by Wind Energy Ireland revealed yesterday.

Toyota has closed out the year as Ireland’s most popular car brand. With 12.44 per cent share of the passenger car market and four of its models in the top ten best-sellers.

‘The capital, Galway, is a terrible place. It has of course St Nicholas, one of the few remaining preReformation churches; the frontispiece of a Renaissance town house erected as a gateway to the public park; and a medieval fortified house about which they tell the well-known story of the Lynch who hanged his own son when the sheriff wasn't available. At least once a year while I was director of the Abbey theatre we got a play on that. From Miss Edgeworth's account of her travels to Galway it would appear that as a theme for tragedy it was popular a hundred years ago. But even before that I had a lively hatred of the town....'

Researchers at Athlone Institute of Technology have launched a survey to better understand Irish consumers knowledge of seafood packaging and its waste management.

Portwest has just unveiled its new brand partnership with Bleubird Apparel and welcomes the collection of eco-conscious clothing and accessories in store and online.

Ninety-Eight-year-old Mayo woman Maureen Sweeney was presented with a special US House of Representatives honour last weekend for her actions that helped change the course of history.

From being one of the last countries in Western Europe to decriminalise homosexuality in 1993, to becoming the first State in the world to legalise same-sex marraige through a public viote in 2015, the change in Ireland’s attitudes towards its LGBT+ citizens has been one of the most positive and rapid of recent social developments.