WHEN is a croissant not a croissant? When it has no butter perhaps? When it has nothing like the short list of ingredients in the traditional croissant — flour, yeast, water, butter, a little sugar and salt, and instead a long list of cheaper non-hydrogenated fats and oils, emulsifiers and acidifiers, dough enhancers and antioxidants.

WHEN it comes to bread, coeliacs have it tough. Bread, mostly made from rice flour, is often heavy, grainy, and tasteless, and hardly worth the extra cost compared to regular bread.

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Children have a “very bleak future” if the Government is unable to take on the vested interests in the alcohol and sports industries, the country’s largest representative body of community drug projects has said.

Make sure the kids feel freakishly fabulous this Halloween with Aldi’s costumes (€4.99) and face paints (€2.79).

Some of Cork city’s biggest retailers have joined forces to offer free parking to shoppers.

The Merchant’s Quay Project in Dublin has questioned the Government’s commitment to the National Drugs Strategy.

The Penal Reform Trust and the Merchant’s Quay project are holding a forum today to discuss the spread of HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C in Ireland’s prisons.

HIV and Hepatitis C infection has reached epidemic levels in Irish prisons, according to a report published today by the Merchant’s Quay Project and the Irish Penal Reform Trust.

AN average of 140 people sleep rough on the streets of Dublin every night, a new survey will reveal.