The World Health Organization broke its own rules to spend millions on BCG consultants

The world’s leading health organization, the WHO, repeatedly broke its own rules and spent millions of dollars on high-priced management consultants, according to a new independent audit — even as the United Nations agency has struggled to pay for lifesaving equipment and vaccines in its global Covid-19 response. An unnamed consulting company, which Vox has …

How Indigenous memories can help save species from extinction

From his home in remote coastal British Columbia, Ernest Mason, a 77-year-old elder and hereditary chief of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation, remembers. He remembers a childhood fishing trip with his father, when they packed sleeping bags but caught so many halibut they were home before dark. He remembers setting traps for pink Dungeness crab and floating …

Cork’s sole 2021 All-Star nominee likely to miss rest of season

SEAN MEEHAN LOOKS set to miss the rest of Cork’s season as he undergoes surgery to repair a hamstring injury. The talented defender, who was the only Cork player nominated for an All-Star in 2021, will fly to the UK today ahead of the operation, according to county board chairman Marc Sheehan.  “Sean Meehan, our …

Big wins for Louth and Laois in Division 3, as promotion race from basement heats up

National Football League results Division 3 Wicklow 0-8 Laois 1-17 Fermanagh 0-14 Louth 2-12 Division 4 Sligo 3-19 London 0-10 Carlow 1-10 Leitrim 2-14 Cavan 1-7 Tipperary 1-11 Wexford 0-15 Waterford 0-14 Advertisement ********** IT WAS A mixed afternoon for the promotion-chasers in Division Four of the National Football Leagues. They all came head-to-head as …

18 cards dished out as Roscommon and Derry share the spoils at the Hyde

Roscommon 0-12 Derry 0-12 LIKE A DAYTIME TV soap opera, this afternoon’s contest between Roscommon and Derry was far more about drama than style or production values, as these two sides played out a draw that leaves both of them no further on and no further back in the race for promotion from Division Two …

Galway continue perfect Division 2 campaign with home win over Clare

Galway 2-8 Clare 1-5 EIGHT PLAYERS FOUND the target for Galway as they continued their perfect start to their Division Two campaign with a fifth win in succession at a wet Tuam Stadium. The scoring was low but it was an intriguing first half where it was level 1-2 to 1-2 at the break, with …

Tyrone without management team three weeks out from relegation play-off

THE TYRONE LADIES football squad are without a management team three weeks out from their Division Two relegation play-off. Kevin McCrystal and his management team stepped down ahead of next month’s showdown with Clare following a mixed start to the 2022 season. “The players have decided they want to go down a different path and …

Matt Doherty’s renaissance at Spurs and the week’s best sportswriting

Davy Russell. Source: PA 1. Davy Russell was never not coming back. Not when he broke his neck. Not when the shock from his fall in the 2020 Munster National shot down his arm and out through his finger and thumb with such a bang that it felt like a firework had gone off in his hand. …

Cork league final bound after stoppage-time free secures draw with Kilkenny

CORK ARE HEADED for the Littlewoods Ireland Division One Camogie league final after Chloe Sigerson’s 55-metre free in the fourth minute of stoppage time gave them the draw they needed at the end of a tense and windswept clash with Kilkenny at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. There were immaculate underfoot conditions but driving rain and a …

The new Alzheimer’s drug is the first of its kind. Will it be the last?

The FDA’s recent approval of the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab is a crucial crossroads in the continuing search for a cure for this devastating disease. Federal regulators approved Biogen’s drug, through an accelerated process, earlier this month. The FDA’s approval came over the objections of its own scientific advisers, who had cited a lack of evidence …