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Trip Through Time: Gathering mushrooms in Dundalk

The present spell of fine weather has reminded me that one of the greatest pleasures of my school holidays was to go picking blackberries from the hedges in the green fields behind my home which are now covered by housing estates. It is not yet the ...

30 Jul 2022 at 22:33

Magic mushroom compound ‘opens up depressed people’s brains’, study suggests

The psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms helps to open up depressed people’s brains and make them less fixed in negative thinking patterns, a study has suggested. According to the study, psilocybin made the brain more flexible, working ...

11 Apr 2022 at 17:25

Final celebrity contestants to battle it out for The Masked Singer crown

The remaining celebrity contestants on The Masked Singer are set to have their identities revealed during the show’s final on Saturday. Mushroom, Panda and Robobunny will compete to be crowned as the champion of the ITV singing competition, ...

12 Feb 2022 at 03:55

Fungi-tree planting could feed millions while capturing tonnes of carbon – study

Growing edible mushrooms alongside trees can produce a valuable food source for millions of people while capturing carbon, a new study has found. For the last two years, Paul Thomas, honorary professor at the University of Stirling’s ...

13 Mar 2023 at 20:00

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Wild mushrooms suspected of killing three who ate lunch together in Australia

Australian police are trying to establish how three people died and a fourth became critically ill after apparently eating wild mushrooms at a family lunch. Police have interviewed the woman who they say cooked the meal at her home ...

09 Aug 2023 at 10:23

Scotland

Foragers asked not to strip Scotland’s forests bare of wild mushrooms

Budding foragers picking wild mushrooms this autumn have been warned to take only what they need as the forests are “stripped bare”. The call comes from Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), Scotland’s national forestry body, which ...

18 Aug 2023 at 14:39

‘Legal first’ as ex-councillor convicted and sentenced remotely in US

A former Labour councillor has been convicted and sentenced by videolink in the US for his part in an international drug trafficking conspiracy, in what lawyers believe to be a legal first. Daniel Barwell, who was elected to ...

28 Mar 2023 at 22:53

Police accuse lunch host of murdering three guests with poisonous mushrooms

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Woman arrested three months after dinner guests died

The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home has been charged with murdering three guests with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth who was left fighting for life, police said. Police ...

02 Nov 2023 at 13:02

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Woman accused of serving poisonous mushrooms with lunch appears in court

A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch has appeared in an Australian court, charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Erin Patterson, 49, ...

03 Nov 2023 at 08:11

Crime & Court

Two men arrested after €126,000 drugs bust in Donegal

Two men were arrested after over €125,000 worth of drugs was seized in Donegal. An estimated €116,000 worth of cannabis herb and €10,000 of suspected ‘magic’ mushrooms was seized on Thursday. Gardaí attached to the ...

19 Apr 2024 at 19:33

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Woman in court charged with fatally poisoning ex-husband’s family with mushrooms

A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch appeared in an Australian court on Monday charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Erin ...

22 Apr 2024 at 06:43

Scientists to examine how mushrooms become magic

Scientists are using advanced genetic methods and behavioural experiments in a bid to uncover how mushrooms become magic and evolve psychedelic properties. Compounds found in so-called magic mushrooms are ...

17 Oct 2022 at 09:00

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