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- UK professor under investigation was NEPS guest speaker August 12, 2026A University of Cambridge professor who has made headlines over an investigation by the institution into his academic qualifications and honorary appointments was a guest speaker at the Irish National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) conference last year.
- Ataxia drug cost must fall for HSE to purchase - NCPE August 12, 2026There would have to be "significant price reduction" in the cost of a drug to treat Friedreich's Ataxia for it to be covered by the HSE according to the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE).
- Health watchdog to carry out tobacco affordability study August 12, 2026Health watchdog HIQA has begun work on an analysis of tobacco affordability in Ireland.
- 'Political madness' to unwind fuel supports, says IRHA August 12, 2026Unwinding fuel supports would be "political madness", the president of the Road Haulage Association has said.
- Russia frees ailing ex-US Marine from detention August 12, 2026Russia freed a former American Marine jailed there since 2022, US President Donald Trump said, as the man returned to the United States to be greeted with hamburgers and milkshakes.
- Last chance to see significant solar eclipse until 2090 August 12, 2026Follow latest as preparations are under way for the first significant solar eclipse visible in Ireland since 1999.
- Colombia rescuers find woman alive after earthquake August 12, 2026Colombian rescuers pulled a 32-year-old woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building as exhausted crews searched to find more survivors from the country's strongest earthquake in a century.
- European Championships: Irish in action on Day 3 August 12, 2026It's day three of the European Athletics Championships and European Aquatics Championships. Follow all of the Irish in action.
- Watch: How Ireland viewed the solar eclipse of 1999 August 12, 2026Shortly after 6pm this evening Ireland will experience a partial solar eclipse as the Moon moves across the Sun.
