Gardaí in Killarney are appealing for witnesses to the death of a jarvey in Killarney. His jaunting car horse bolted suddenly on the Countess Road near the town centre on Thursday morning.
The driver was taken to Tralee General Hospital. He was transferred to Cork University Hospital where he died later.
The telephone number is 064-33011.
Antrim boy (9) dies in accident
A nine-year-old boy has died following a traffic accident in Co Antrim. Patrick Fitzsimons, from the Gables Estate area of Randalstown, died after he was struck by a car on the Moneynick Road in Randalstown on Thursday evening.
A woman died after her car left the M1 about a mile from Belfast early yesterday morning. The crash happened as she was driving towards the city at around 2.40 a.m. Her name was not being released pending notification of her relatives.
Second fishing vessel detained
The Naval Service has detained its second fishing vessel this week for alleged breach of regulations in Irish waters. The Irish-registered beam trawler, Newgrange, was apprehended by the patrol ship, LE Ciara, south-east of Ballycotton, Co Cork, yesterday and was escorted into Cobh.
Earlier this week a British-registered fishing vessel, the Ondarruman, was detained by the LE Aisling about 50 miles south of Mizen Head for alleged breach of logbook and mesh-size regulations.
Obesity challenge in food safety
Obesity is the single biggest challenge facing scientists working in the food safety area, a conference in University College Dublin was told yesterday, writes Sean MacConnell, Agriculture Correspondent.
At the official opening of the new Centre for Food Safety at the campus, its director, Prof Shea Fanning , said the multi-disciplinary research there would be looking at nutritional issues as well as the prevention of contamination of food with chemicals and microbes.
"The biggest outbreak Ireland is currently facing is obesity. With over one-third of the population overweight we can anticipate immense health problems in the future unless the issue of healthy nutrition is comprehensively addressed," he said.
"The food-processing industry has a role to play to produce healthy food at a reasonable price. Morbidity is unevenly distributed in Irish society, and poorer people experience poorer health. Therefore the Government will need to adopt initiatives to ensure healthy food is not only for the rich and is affordable by all," he said.
He said that social scientists and psychologists could assist the public health professionals in getting people to take responsibility for their eating practices and health.
A conference held to mark the establishment of the new centre heard Mr Geoffrey Podger, chief executive of the newly-established European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), highlight the urgent need for collaboration between scientists to ensure multi-disciplinary research which would provide more enhanced consumer understanding on food safety issues as well as potential food safety risks.