The Hot Press drugs issue is on newsstands now and the accompanying hard-hitting TV ad has already caused controversy.
A toned-down version of the clip, which depicts a drugs mule ingesting and 'delivering' packages of cocaine, has aired on RTE, but the full, original version can be viewed below.
This special edition of Hot Press features the most comprehensive - and chilling - account of the drugs situation in Ireland today. The compendium of articles, views and interviews on drugs in Ireland is a body of work that will shock, stun and sometimes frighten. The Irish public has never before been offered such an honest and in-depth account of drugs in Ireland’s towns, streets, and neighbourhoods.
"Cops. Doctors. Politicians. Dealers. Users. Counsellors. Parents. Writers. Poets. Singers, seekers and dreamers. They are all represented here," says editor Niall Stokes. "Some of the stories are heart breaking. All of them are real. There is no party line. Our objective was to inspire properly informed debate. In this regard, I think the Hot Press team have done a wonderful job."
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The advert is the first production from Screenworks Ireland, a new company set up by the people who brought you the controversial Billie Piper ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Actors are Ann McCartney and Mick O'Toole.
'Ireland's Ultimate Gaming Event' comes to the Convention Centre in Dublin on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th October, with two six hour sessions having been added to both days.
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The BAI has decided to “seek further clarification” in relation to the ban on Irish Times journalists imposed at stations owned by Denis O'Brien
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The Egyptian authorities released the Irish citizen late last night after keeping him locked up for over four years.
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The band's new single won't be released until 10 November, but they've decided to give Hot Press readers a first listen and first look at their new music video.
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After first appearing in the Netflix original, Marvel's Daredevil, Frank Castle a.k.a. Punisher will be returning to our screens on 17th November.
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As the 2017 Web Summit in Lisbon draws nearer, excitement has been building with the announcement of a number of new speakers and guests for the world's largest annual tech event.
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With the Year Zero: THE CLASH at Trinity College Dublin symposium running on Saturday, we're remembering our magical encounters with the Westway warriors...
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The Canadian R&B duo will be performing at the Academy, Dublin on Sunday 4th March 2018.
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The Dubliners' legend was highly regarded throughout the industry...
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The world-renowned guitarist and singer has died following a short illness at the age of 70.
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Starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, Bright is an alternative universe police action thriller that arrives on Netflix on 22nd December.
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The upwardly-mobile Cavan singer releases a new single, 'Blood Diamonds', on October 27.
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Concerns have been expressed about a possible looming crisis within Dublin's Addiction Centres. Now, Hot Press can confirm that at least one drug addiction clinic in North Dublin is due to close for an extended period.
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"It’s beautifully simple; he wrote and sang about classic American things," says Thomas...
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A week after her decade-long Newstalk show was abruptly cancelled, Dil Wickremasinghe will be returning to your ears, minds and hearts.
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Director Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects posted the picture on Instagram.
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"The last time I did an interview this long I was on cocaine, it was called Stay Strong"
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"A knobhead who lets his missus sing with him!" was Liam's considered 2005 opinion of the Libertines man...
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Roy Price, who is a close friend of Harvey Weinstein, has stepped down from his position at Amazon Studio following allegations of sexual harassment.
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The former teen icon star of 'Sixteen Candles' and 'The Breakfast Club' has opened up about how a film director "stuck his tongue in my mouth" when she was only 14-years-old.
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An executive producer on Stephen King's 'The Mist' is sensationally accusing Bob Weinstein of sexual harassment during the production of the TV show.
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The two rock legends have confirmed a Kilmainham visit next summer...
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"Violent words really excite me," he told Hot Press' Peter Murphy in 1998...
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'Little Dark Age' is the first track from their upcoming fourth album, which is due out in 2018.
Read More Hot Press has learned that patients in drug addiction clinics could be moved to 'primary care' treat, a move which could seriously affect patient health, as well as seeing the highly addictive methadone drug become more widely accessible on the black market.
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FIFA have announced the draw for the upcoming 2018 World Cup Russia play-off games this November.
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Fingers will be stuck right up yer' nose next March...
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The single will be premiered later today on Beats 1 at 5pm.
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To celebrate Liam's solo chart-topping antics, we're revisiting some of his classic Hot Press interviews...
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The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia play-off matches will be made today at 13.00 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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The BBC TV show has just put together a brilliant tribute to Sean Hughes, which they've shared online
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They say revenge is a dish best served cold... and Carrie Fisher literally took this to heart when she gave one Hollywood producer a cow tongue with a verbal warning off after he sexually harassed her friend!
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Controversial filmmaker Lars Von Trier has gone on record to categorically deny allegations that he made any inappropriate sexual advances to the Icelandic superstar.
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Manson says that he would never get into a fist fight with the Canadian superstar because he doesn't like to "fight with girls"!
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You'll be able to binge on it from November 22 courtesy of Netflix!
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Faulkner was due to play Cyprus Avenue tonight.
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The Swedish singer-songwriter was due to play the Olympia Theatre, Dublin this evening (16th October), but was forced to cancel as a result of Hurricane Ophelia.
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The Breeders are the latest band to cancel their show tonight due to Hurricane Ophelia.
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The British singer-songwriter was due to perform at Dublin's Button Factory tonight and tomorrow (17th October).
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The Steven Soderbergh "storytelling experience" is due in January...
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We did some serious delving into their past a while back...
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After it was revealed last week that UK police had opened an investigation into claims that the Hollywood mogul had allegedly raped a famous British actress, it has now been confirmed that a further three women have come forward to press charges.
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Dubliners are up in arms after the Church of Scientology, which Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin described as a “cult” during the weekend, just opened a major new complex in Firhouse, Dublin 24.
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Our own Leo can’t claim to be the youngest leader of an EU state anymore after a fresh-faced 31-year-old dubbed "wonderkid" just won power in Austria.
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Amanda Brunker has told how a well-known and "powerful" businessman attempted to ply her with drugs in an sickening effort to get her to “strip off” naked to carry out sordid “sex acts”.
Read More Bob Weinstein, who's the co-founder of The Weinstein Company, says that he’s “heartbroken” for the women that his brother sexually assaulted.
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Meanwhile, Trump & the White House have yet to respond to his $10m impeachment offer...
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He's taken out a full-page ad in today's Washington Post...
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The veteran hit-maker is over next September...
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The former Irish Times sportswriter will be sentenced on October 24 for sexual offences. A very different-seeming man spoke to Hot Press back in 2003. Perhaps that interview is worth reading again...
Read More "I showed a lack of judgement for which I am genuinely sorry", he says in a statement.
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Released on October 6th, the younger Gallagher's debut album, As You Were has shot straight into the number one slot.
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The I Wouldn't Be EP was released today, featuring four brand new tracks.
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The Thread That Keeps Us will be the band's ninth record and is scheduled for release on 26th January, 2018.
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The Indiana-based group will be performing upstairs in Whelan's on Tuesday, 14th November.
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The director, who has collaborated his entire career with Weinstein's various studios broke his silence a week after the accusations were first reported on in The New York Times and New Yorker.
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The Dublin actor has told how he's dumbfounded by the "horrific" allegations made against the movie mogul.
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This month the Abbey Theatre presents the premiere of 'What Put the Blood' by Frances Poet.
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The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys has congratulated the playwright following the opening night of his acclaimed play, ‘King of the Castle’, at the Dublin Theatre Festival.
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The English actress has taken to social media to disclose that the movie mogul made inappropriate sexual advances towards her when she was just a 17-year-old schoolgirl.
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The one time teenage heartthrob of Dawson Creek fame has told how three different male movie moguls made inappropriate sexual advances toward him.
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The national broadcaster is beefing up its digital oldies operation...
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Ahead of their upcoming US tour with industrial music pioneers, Ministry, the Sacramento-based hip hop group have shared a new track previewed in a recent video promo for said tour.
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As news breaks that Maria Doyle-Kennedy has joined the cast of Outlander, we rewind to our 2016 interview with Claire, AKA Caitriona Balfe...
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It's another massive big deal for the Downton Abbey and Tudors star...
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Mental health services received an "additional" €35 million in the national budget for 2018 on Tuesday.
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The filmmaker has suggested there are "powerful abusers" in Ireland waiting to be exposed by their colleagues...
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Enough signatures have now been collected to hold a referendum to impeach pro-life campaigner Katie Ascough in order to remove her from her role as president of the students' union.
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The ex-Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed the British model turned actress when they met to discuss a movie role, she has revealed.
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The Oscar winning star was forced into a grovelling apology last night for having “acted inappropriately” towards Hilarie Burton during an interview for MTV all the way back in 2003.
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Fionnula Flanagan, who worked with the disgraced movie mogul on ‘Transamerica’ and ‘The Others’, has told how he “behaved appallingly” towards women.
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Team Hot Press has been playing 'spot the classic rock influence'...
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The Surrey-born songwriter will bring his 'Feels Like Morning' tour to Ireland for three nights between Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th of November.
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Asia Argento has bravely opened up about the "nightmare" experience of being sexually abused by the movie mogul.
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The model turned actress and writer has bravely opened up about how she was dragged to hell and back as a teenager battling with depression and ADHD.
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They've been divorced for donkeys years, but Trump's first wife Ivana is bizarrely claiming that she is entitled to call herself America's First Lady.
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A new trailer for Star Wars 8: The Last Jedi was released today, with several major plot details hinted at.
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Just two weeks before a new bill will be brought before the Seanad on gender pay equality, IBEC is now calling for mandatory gender pay gap reporting to be introduced for large Irish companies.
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The late singer also believed that he was being "bloody picked on by God", it is revealed in a new documentary to be aired on TV next week.
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