No one would want to touch or eat faeces, but we do that by not washing our hands properly'.

This means using soap and water at home and alcohol gel in hospitals and clinics. The HSE said some people are washing their hands insufficiently, missing areas like the tips of their fingers. Professor Martin Cormican, HSE National Lead for Antibiotic Resistance, said: “Things that look clean often have billions of bacteria and viruses so you can pick them up from touching most surfaces.“It is really important that you clean your hands well with soap and water and then dry them on a paper (or clean) towel.

Shane Dunphy: The Irish state is a very bad parent when its children turn 18 they often end up on the streets.

Shane Dunphy is a child protection expert, author and broadcaster. He is Head of the Social Studies Department at Waterford College of Further Education. The first time I met James* it was at the beginning of the Christmas season, and he was being thrown out of a pub for causing a disturbance. He had arrived early that evening and had already consumed more than was good for him as the first of the work parties were coming in for their seasonal festivities.

Brave Rebeca Gyumi fought Tanzania’s child marriage laws and won.

She is widely known as the woman who fought for an end to child marriages in Tanzania and won. Tanzania is one of the African countries with the highest rates of child marriage in the world two out of every five girls marry before their 18th birthday with a prevalence rate of 37% nationwide, according to the country’s national demographic and health survey of 2015/16.

Lynching is finally a federal crime in America.

The news that lynching has been made a crime in America in 2018 got many people by surprise as they wondered why it took so long for this to be achieved. The bill was introduced by three black senators: Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Tim Scott, R-S.C.The bill, which was introduced earlier in the year, indicates that at least 4,742 people were reported lynched between 1882 and 1968.

Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, Nigeria the only airport in Africa named after a woman.

Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, Nigeria, was named after a salient politician, nationalist and women’s rights activist in the West African country who rose to fame in the 1950s during the country’s political struggle for independence.