Ash does not pose health risk, insist experts

EXPERTS are monitoring the threat to human health posed by the volcanic ash in Irish air space -- but insisted yesterday there was no significant risk, writes Colin Gleeson.
The Health Service Executive (HSE) said there was no danger to people on the ground because the plume was "currently at high altitude" and it was not expected to come to ground in Ireland "in the near future".
The ash is from a volcano on the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland, which began to erupt just after midnight yesterday.
A HSE spokeswoman said that even if the plume did drop towards the ground, the concentrations of particles at ground level were so small that they were not likely to cause significant effects on health.

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