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Patients aged 70 and over will now be vaccinated in the hospital setting following a policy change by the Government.

More than 2,000 Galway healthcare workers have been innoculated against Covid-19 in less than a week at the mass vaccination centre at Galway racecourse in Ballybrit.

A new coaching and sport science programme has been developed for GAA, LGFA and camogie players.

As the evenings lengthen in brightness, thoughts turn towards enhancing the exercise experience with optimum posture paramount.

Smokers have been urged to kick the habit for good as health chiefs insist the benefits begin just 20 minutes after stubbing out the last cigarette.

If sports professionals want to win, oral health needs to be a top priority for elite and amateur athletes alike.

The Irish Cancer Society is urging the people of Athlone and its environs to get behind a very different Daffodil Day this year, with street sales and events not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions.

The liver is constantly producing bile. When it isn’t needed for the digestion of food, the bile enters the gallbladder to be stored. Here water is extruded concentrating the bile and making it ten to fifteen times stronger than the bile produced by the liver. Bile digests fat, it also contains waste eliminated by the liver as it breaks down drugs, hormones and proteins. Bile is released into the duodenum to aid digestion.