Whether it is seeking an energy boost, relief from stress or simply wanting to feel more alert and confident, cocaine is offering many in Ireland a rather illusive quick fix. Just last year, the Health Research Board (HRB) announced that powder cocaine had surpassed all other drugs as the primary reason for people seeking drug treatment.
What is it like to be a baby? How does a baby experience the world? These are perennial questions which an international team of researchers, including neuroscientists from Trinity College Dublin (TCD), have sought to answer in a recent study published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Science.
‘People always took the Irish cures very seriously. If you’re sick, you’re sick and everybody wants to be better,” says Cecily Gilligan, author of a new book, The Cures of Ireland: A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies.