Doldrum Bay News Today

Bookmark it: The First Fortnight Festival kicks off on January 5 with two weeks of theatre, poetry, music and textile art on a range of topics related to mental health. The line-up includes Louisa Ní Éideáin’s Dopa-Mean Girl, a one-woman, cabaret-style show she wrote after receiving a late diagnosis of ADHD in 2022. Performed in both English and Irish, it is designed to “recreate the polyphony of a brain that must do at least two things at all times”. Neurodiverse people wil...

Irish waters are awash with our own excrement. Historic underinvestment is blamed, so why are some upgraded plants still pumping out raw sewage?

The Environmental Protection Agency says there are unacceptable delays in improvements to waste water treatment. Their latest report says the pace of improvement is too slow.