Róisín Ingle

Welcome back to the Women's Podcast.

I'm Roisin Ingle.

Hope you're all doing well.

We're looking forward to a bit of a heat wave.

So enjoy that over the weekend.

I feel like a weather forecast here.

I mean, I believe there's a heat wave incoming.

How do I know?

Anyway, get in touch with us on social at IT Women's Podcast or you can email us the women's podcast at irishtimes.com.

And we really do love hearing from you.

Now, in a moment, we're going to be talking to Sarah Breen and Eimear MacLeyset about working together after their bestselling Aisling series of novels.

And also on books, just to mention our book club, we're reading London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe.

So read along with us and we'll bring you that conversation next month.

And now Irish Times opinion editor Jennifer O'Connell joins us with some of the stories of the week.

Jennifer, lovely to have you back with us.

We're going to start with cocaine.

It's a subject we've dealt with on the podcast before.

The numbers of women seeking treatment for cocaine use has increased.

That's a huge increase.

But anecdotally, when I talk to younger people, the presence of cocaine at parties, for example, house parties or wherever else, it's really very normal, like very normalised in a way that I think when we were maybe at that stage.