Did you receive an emergency flash message on your mobile phone, followed by a loud warning tone? There is no need to worry; it’s a 'Test Alert' notification being carried out as part of a nationwide ...

The Fitness Pacer Test starts deceptively slow but ramps up quickly. Each beep demands faster sprints with less recovery time. At first it feels manageable, but fatigue sets in faster than expected.

The “beep test”, a standard aerobic fitness measure used for prospective firefighters and Gardaí for the last 40 years, has been all over the news in the past few days. This is after Cork Fire Brigade ...

The Workplace Relations Commission ordered Cork Fire Brigade to pay €4,000 for gender discrimination and a further €4,000 for age discrimination to Terézia Foott The "beep test", a standard aerobic ...

The “beep test” – a standard aerobic fitness measure used for prospective firefighters for the last 40 years – discriminates against women and advantages younger candidates, a tribunal has found, ...

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Cork City Council has been ordered to pay €8,000 compensation to a woman whose application for a firefighting job was unsuccessful due to a discriminatory ‘one size fits all’ beep fitness test for ...

Cork City Council has been ordered to pay €8,000 compensation to an unsuccessful female 43-year old fire-fighter job applicant due to a discriminatory ‘one size fits all’ beep fitness tests for ...

The operator of the beep card system on Friday announced the removal of all Beep Stored Value Updaters (SVUs) and Express Renewal Devices (ERDs) from rail stations due to their reliance on outdated 3G ...

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If a medical test result is inconclusive, the sample did not provide enough information to confirm a positive or negative result. A person may need another test. People can have various medical tests ...