drugs

April 20th, as we all know, is a day celebrated by brain-rotted losers with questionable politics, but can we all just ignore Hitler’s birthday and celebrate International Cannabis Day instead? Yes, April 20th - the 20th day of the 4th…

Alan Maguire and Ellen Tannam talk to comedian Damon Blake of Fox and Blake about the mind-bending 1990 anti-drugs cartoon Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue in which The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Alf, Garfield, Winnie The Pooh,…

It is 1996. I am a young Irish stand-up comedian. The stage is not my home. It is more like a youth hostel in Wiesbaden. I never storm during my act - just lightly rain shower. I have started referring to laughs as Godot. Most evenings when…

Back in March, the Independent reported that Health Minister Leo Varadkar supported a “more liberal approach” to drug use in Ireland. This was in response to the emergency meetings called when a ‘legal loophole’ decriminalised the use of…

According to an article called ‘Help From Above’ on catholicnewsagency.com (get it?) a priest did an exorcism on a town out of a helicopter. I did a line space there because even as I wrote that I had to reread it a few times to make…

The Weeknd Beauty Behind The Madness The Weeknd aka Abel Tesfaye has recently risen from being a popular cult artist to having one of the most hotly anticipated albums of the year. His rise to global popularity has been driven largely…

“If I really thought I was famous, I’d top myself.” - Amy Winehouse, 2007 Amy, Asif Kapadia’s documentary on singer Amy Winehouse, is a brutal and heartbreaking glimpse into the short life of one of the greatest singers of our…

When I first studied cancer medicine as an undergraduate, my lecturer described chemotherapy as “beating up the patient with a baseball bat in the hope that you get the cancer on the way.” Chemotherapy has benefits, but the side effects can…

"Gas! Gas!….flound’ring like a man in fire or lime… guttering, choking, drowning… blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs.” Few things evoke the horror of battle as powerfully as Wilfred Owens’ Dulce et Decorum Est. Even…

Would you rather? One big pin-prick or lots of little micro pin-pricks? I’m not trying to start a game of would you rather, but really, which would you pick… A novel concept for drug delivery is currently being developed at…