Tony Duffin is the CEO of the Ana Liffey Drug Project, a Dublin-based non-profit organisation which advocates for a health-based, harm-reductive approach to the issues of drug-use and drug policy in Ireland. First established in 1982, the Ana Liffey Drug Project offers services to people who use drugs in the Dublin, Mid-West and North-East regions…
Once upon a time, if you asked most people if they’d ever listened to Brockhampton, one would have received a response like “No. Who’s he?”but now, having recently released their long-awaited fourth studio album, ‘Iridescence’, the U.S. based hip-hop boyband are soon to become a household name, both in and out of the rap community….
I’m writing this on the morning of Thursday, the 11th of October. It’s early morning and, uncharacteristically of me, I’m just not in the mood to keep my eyes shut and engulf myself in the warm thickness of my heavy winter blankets. I’m uneasy and jittery and feel like there’s something inside of me that…
Last week Mary Crilly of Cork Sexual Violence Centre announced that three students in Cork have come to them having been raped in the first two weeks of colleges re-opening. Two of the three students of UCC and CIT have dropped out of college to go home to their families. Mary Crilly tells us that…
‘I’m calling because I have pills in my room, and I’m afraid that if I don’t have any distraction tonight, I’ll try and kill myself again.’ As I listened, the man on the other side of the phone began to describe his life and pains to me, more openly than with his girlfriend, his roommates,…
Gender is a complicated topic – or is it just complicated because we aren’t being educated on it? Only in the last 10-20 years have LGBT+ issues truly been given the worldwide exposure they deserve, and amongst these issues includes the topic of our gender identities. It’s a fairly simple concept: at birth, we are…
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone.” Almost sixty years later, it’s still as captivating, atmospheric, and unmistakable as it ever was….
Over the past number of years, the mental health of Ireland’s youth has become a pressing issue and, in the past 18 months alone, is now finally beginning to get its recognition as one of Ireland’s most pressing issues. In February of this year, it was reported by the Association for Higher Education Access and…
I’ve been struggling with my health habits for a very long time. As a 21st century student, the vast majority of my time is spent sitting down, be it in a lecture, in the library while studying or finishing up with assignments, on the bus on my way to town or even writing this very…
Recently I had the opportunity to chat with Aileen Hickey, a successful journalist-turned-barrister and fabulous mother of five. Aileen lives in Dublin with her five children and her husband, Matt Cooper: the highly successful journalist and radio presenter with his own show, ‘The Last Word’, on Today FM. I began by asking Aileen about her…