Three senior academics from University College Cork (UCC) were today elected to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the highest academic honour in Ireland.

• The National Suicide Research Foundation, located at UCC, redesignated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Surveillance and Research in Suicide Prevention.
• The long-standing collaborative partnership between UCC and the NSRF will continue its work in the prevention and intervention of suicide.

The Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin TD, today launched a new €11.6 million research programme focused on Cerebral Palsy at University College Cork (UCC).

• Drug commonly used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer sees tumour shrinkage in several other cancer types.
• Cancer treatment combination may have more uses than previously thought.

• Review finds no increase in suicide rate during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• A range of factors during the pandemic served as protective effects to the risk of suicide.
• Study also highlights the need for high-quality and timely data on suicide deaths worldwide.

• Research shows that people with the complex lung disease COPD see improved health benefits from behaviour change interventions.
• It is estimated that over 380,000 people in Ireland suffer from COPD.
• Interventions ‘has helped me greatly’ says woman with COPD.