Explainer: What is the government’s minimum alcohol pricing all about?
How many grams of alcohol are in that? Mario Bowden unscrews the mystery of minimum pricing and what it means for you
Category: Current Affairs
Podcast: The puzzling disappearance of Dublin’s cultural landscape
With the closure of Dublin’s beloved cultural centre Jigsaw, Jake Hurley speaks with artists and creatives to learn if it was the missing piece to the capital’s cultural patchwork and what can be done to stop the further erosion of cultural space
The drugs don’t work: Substance misuse during the pandemic
Loneliness, anxiety, and boredom –the pandemic has brought all three. James Molloy investigates how Covid-19 has changed people’s drug and alcohol habits
High heels, big problems?
Dolapo Agunbiade takes us on a surrealist journey through time and pictures to explore the correlation between the height of heels and economic downturns
Podcast: Covid-19 abroad – how Germany dealt with the pandemic
Johannes Thom speaks to James Molloy about Covid-19 in one of Europe’s mega-powers: Germany
Covid-19 abroad: Brazil setting the wrong kind of records amid deadly second wave
A year after its president Jair Bolsonaro wrote Covid-19 off as ‘just a little flu’, Brazil is logging record daily death figures while its healthcare system faces collapse. Maria Lombardini in Rio de Janeiro tells Colm McGuirk about the last year