Weird and unusual news! Italian police are looking for a man supposedly hypnotising people and making them hand over money:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7309947.stm
In every case, the last thing staff reportedly remember is the thief leaning over and saying: “Look into my eyes”, before finding the till empty.
In the latest incident captured on CCTV, he targeted a bank at [...]

Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before they act, as they don’t get credit for preventing things but for solving crisis’s!
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0217/drugsfeature.html
If these people were dying at one time in one [...]