MORE women are being treated for alcohol abuse than men, according to figures from one of the country’s main treatment centres for alcoholism.

Rare early photographs of U2 are expected to be snapped up for thousands of euro at a heated auction in Dublin later today.

THE Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is investigating claims that drug addicts injecting themselves on the streets are not being arrested by gardaí.

A Fianna Fail TD has claimed that plans by a low-price British chain to open pubs in Ireland will feed the culture of binge drinking and underage alcohol abuse in Ireland.

ANYONE taking ecstasy is playing Russian roulette with their lives, a leading addiction researcher warned yesterday.

COCAINE users who have taken the drug while drunk have been admitted to A&E departments in a coma, the head of Rutland Treatment Centre said yesterday.