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Rate of STIs decreased 11% last year - HPSC

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan

The notification rate for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Ireland fell 11% in 2024, according to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). Figures released this week show the drop was mainly due to big reductions in chlamydia and gonorrhoea. However, that follows significant increases in notifications of both STIs in 2022 and 2023. Figures show that younger people are more affected by STIs, notably women aged 20-24 years. Cases in men are spread over a wider age range.
Visitor numbers from Ireland to US down 27% last month

2 months ago | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan

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45% of containers returned to deposit scheme up to August

Oct 26, 2024 | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan

Consumers returned fewer than one in every two drink containers placed on the market with the Re-turn logo between February and the end of August to the Deposit Return Scheme, according to new figures. It means tens of millions of euro has not been claimed back in the first seven months of the scheme.
At least 1 in 4 containers not recycled through scheme

Sep 7, 2024 | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan |Teenager appears |Taliban enforcing 'vice

At least one in four drinks containers sold to customers are not being recycled through the Deposit Return Scheme, latest figures from Re-turn indicate. It means millions of euro a month are still not being claimed under the scheme. The latest figures show that 111 million drinks containers were returned in August, putting €20m back in consumers' pockets that month. It brings the total number of returned containers to 458 million, with €79.7m of customers' deposits returned to them.
Drug for cats with fatal virus now available in Ireland

May 15, 2024 | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan |Rory McIlroy

Owners of cats with a fatal virus will no longer have to go to Northern Ireland or source medicine on the black market after a new system was put in place for vets here to import the drugs to treat them. Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP), which is caused by feline coronavirus (F-CoV), is almost always fatal in cats. This type of coronavirus is different from the coronavirus that causes Covid and it is not infectious to humans.
Millions of euros unclaimed from Deposit Return Scheme

May 4, 2024 | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan

Millions of euros of customers deposits remain unclaimed from the Deposit Return Scheme three months on since its introduction. At least one in six bottles or cans have been returned so far in the scheme, figures have indicated. Since the scheme was introduced on 1 February, the Department of the Environment said over 76 million containers have been returned and more than €13m has been refunded in deposits.
HSE had no evidence for claim around 2004 smoking ban

Apr 27, 2024 | rte.ie | Padraic Geoghegan

A HSE claim that there had been a decrease of 800,000 smokers since 2004 was not backed up by any of the Census data it was relying on, it has emerged. Last month, it made the claim on the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the smoking ban.