Parents demand names of children given faulty vaccine

Brian Cowen, the Irish minister for health, has confirmed that his department has tracked down records showing that 253 doses from a toxic batch of vaccines were administered to children between 1968 and 1970. Almost none of the children's parents have been told, however.

Now, a group of parents of mentally handicapped people have called on the minister to release any information he has to identify who received the doses.

Mr Cowen told …