COMMUNITY drug groups have welcomed the appointment of Roisín Shortall as a minister responsible for drugs.

Canadian icons Arcade Fire are to make a triumphant return to Electric Picnic this summer after their seminal 2005 performance at the festival, it was confirmed today.

NEARLY 40 drug rehabilitation projects are having their funding axed, and 11 face closure, a Dáil committee was told yesterday.

THE Government is providing €900,000 to the HSE to cut chronic treatment waiting lists for heroin addicts in many parts of the country.

The home of the Beatles, Echo And The Bunnymen and The Coral was today named Britain’s top musical city.