IT’S Wednesday night and we’re around the kitchen table. Unusually for a week night, some friends are over, the craic is good, and the wine is flowing.

The aftermath of tragedy has brought a torrent of ill-informed rhetoric about ‘neknomination’, says Peter O’Dwyer

A woman is being investigated by police after she rode into a supermarket on horseback to take part in a craze that is sweeping the internet.

Timelapse clip shows one man enjoying a pint as it should be enjoyed. Slowly.

The chief celebrant at the funeral of Jonny Byrne is calling for an end to the Neknomination craze.

The term NekNominations is now a subject of much public discourse and debate and has placed social media in the spotlight once again.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is pleading with people to give up the online craze ‘neknomination’.

Facebook has rejected calls to ban pages and videos linked to a “neknomination” drinking craze despite the death of 19-year-old Jonny Byrne being linked to the online dare.

Young people are risking their lives by taking part in a social media drinking game linked to two deaths over the weekend, say mental health experts and youth representatives.

Nek Noms are fairly awful, although this weekend wasn’t the first where young people died from the effects of alcohol.

Search ‘neknomination’ or ‘necknomination’ (spelling can vary) on Twitter, Vine, Facebook, or YouTube and you’ll find thousands of videos of young people speed-drinking vast quantities of alcohol in response to a dare from friends.

There are few activities that seem as doomed to failure as one generation lecturing another, younger one about its excesses.