ONE in five children in Ireland live in such poverty that they often lack such basics as a touch screen smart-phone or an online games console, according to a devastating report today. Frances Fitzgerald, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, was speaking as the department launched its annual report yesterday. Ms. Fitzgerald painted a stark… Read more »
NOT DRIVING your car for six months every year could reduce the chances of crashing it by half, a group of WIT students have claimed. The Waterford Institute of Technology study found that when drivers were taken from behind the wheel, there was a significant reduction of up to 50pc in car accidents. Dr Teddy… Read more »
PRESSURE is mounting on the Irish Government to introduce a national identity card scheme following a survey which found that over half of teenagers feel this would help them remember important personal details when drunk. The WIT survey asked over 4,000 teenagers across the country what they thought about the introduction of a compulsory ID… Read more »
IT is a known fact that being overweight puts you at risk for all kinds of health problems. But a recent shock WIT study links obesity with over eating. Researchers at the Waterford Institute of Technology and the University of Limerick say, eating too much food can cause people to be become over weight or… Read more »
MORE than 98,000 drivers a day are picking their nose while driving. A new WIT survey comes just two days after a Tramore man knocked down a prize heifer outside a Kilmeadan farm while ‘pick driving’ on his way to work. Under the Road Traffic Act 2009, drivers caught fondling their nostrils while driving will… Read more »
A CORK woman who stole a 2-week-old girl from the local Maternity hospital said she is absolutely ‘ecstatic’ today after evading Gardai and search-parties the past two days. After some very careful planning, Theresa Power snatched the child from hospital on Monday and is said to be very happy with her newly aquired baby girl. “Its… Read more »
JAPANESE Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a press conference today that he was really grateful that so many people took the time and effort to click the ‘like’ option on the ‘We Support Japan Tsunami and Earthquake Victims’ facebook group. The PM said he wanted to voice his appreciation and gratitude for the hundreds… Read more »
HUNDREDS of Irish people may die and thousands more suffer serious bouts of anxiety from watching intimidating animal-flu news bulletins, an expert group of Waterford scientists have warned today. It recommends that the nation consider abandoning all forms of aggressive news propaganda during such periods and just carry on with their every day lives. It also says… Read more »
The number of road accidents in China has almost dropped 100 per cent in the first half of this year after the introduction of death penalty points and on the spot executions, culminating in disqualification from life. Statistics released this month indicate that the number of accidents in Beijing in the first 6 months of… Read more »
A WIDOWER was left to die a very long, cold, agonising and monotonous death for 78 years by her own family members, an inquest has found today. Margarette Palmer, 78, was discovered at her her home in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in May 2010. An inquest found that Mrs Palmer died from a life time of… Read more »