Despite drug use being a very prevalent social phenomenon in Ireland today and, as reported in last week's An Phoblacht, one of the most lucrative industries in the world, it is possibly one of the least understood. Free article

In these days of PC, republicans in the Whest of Ireland have decided to develop the traditional Hen night idea into their very own, and very first WHEN night. This `Welcome Home Escapees Night' is being organised to mark the news that Séamus Campbell, Jim Clarke and Dermot McNally, three of the 1983 H Block escapees and living in the West for many years, are now free to travel once again. Free article