A UK union has called for the immediate suspension of wi-fi in classrooms until a longterm study into its health effects has been carried out.

300 schoolgirls will benefit from an initiative led by Dr James Reilly, Fine Gael TD, to provide the cervical-cancer vaccine free in his constituency.

The Health Minister has withdrawn the anti-cancer vaccination programme for 12-year old girls which was aimed at eliminating a cancer-causing virus.

A researcher in Birmingham claims that victims stand to gain as much from being bullied as their tormentors do from ill-treating them.

The National Dairy Council is forging a partnership with the Football Association of Ireland in an effort to promote the School Milk Scheme.

Health inequality among children in Ireland is the subject of a report released today by the Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway.

Fine Gael spokesmen said that a free health check for all children starting school would be a practical, cost effective measure with long-term benefits.

Leaving Cert students who make their CAO applications online and get them in by 20 Janaury will save themselves €10.

Half of the professionals employed in many Dublin computing firms are non-Irish, due to an acute shortage of Irish computing graduates.