Lauren Murphy

Pharmaceuticals from cold medicine, antidepressants and painkillers to cancer drugs and antibiotics pollute the environment — humans dose the rest of the planet with often harmful biologically active chemicals when we excrete them and flush unused drugs down the toilet. Doctors and pharmacists once considered flushing expired and unwanted medicines down the toilet to be a safe disposal method and even recommended it. We now understand the implications of flushing pharmaceuticals: drugs in our environment.

The London-born musician tweaks his sound and thematic concerns, burrowing deeper into the niche he has forged

Until 2019, the Longford town of Ballymahon was best known for one thing: being the birthplace of 18th-century author Oliver Goldsmith.

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are among a growing number of Irish authors who have turned to Substack to share writing that may not have been published elsewhere

2024 may have been a toss-up between Brat Summer and Swiftie Season for pop fans, but it’s already looking like next year will be known as the Summer of Guts.

Ireland's creative boom is reverberating across all elements of culture - but while our actors and filmmakers continue their domination of Hollywood, our

She is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, but also one of the most enigmatic.

The multihyphenate on mindfulness and mental health and why his new classical music radio show has him all fired up

Foley and Armando Iannucci have adapted Stanley Kubrick’s classic satirical film for the theatre. It’s more relevant now than ever, they tell Lauren Murphy