It is the dreaded holiday hangover time. Your head is spinning, your mouth is dry and your body feels like you have gone a round with Mike Tyson. Not quite how you were planning to kick-off 2013.
 
With the holiday season in full swing, and levels of excess at an all time high, we have come up with our top five Irish hangover cures that are guaranteed to take the edge off the pain.
 
Raw Eggs

A New Year, a fresh start, rebirth. But how many of us will break our New Years resolutions? The answer is: most of us. But there’s no shame in it, we’re all in it together. There is simply an international lack of will power when it comes to New Year’s resolutions.

Shakespeare’s witches, with their "Eye of newt, and toe of frog”, could well have been related to some of our ancient Irish ancestors if some of these remedies are to be believed.

An Irish sex counselor states she has seen "catastrophic consequences" of Internet porn on Irish relationships between couples. She calls it the "elephant in the room" in many Irish relationships.

59-year-old Marie Fleming, who is suffering from the terminal disease Multiple Sclerosis, is heading for Ireland’s Supreme Court to appeal the High Court ruling against her bid to be granted assisted suicide.

Pro-choice groups and individuals from across Ireland came together for a meeting in Dublin on Saturday to discuss the name and aims of the newly established Abortion Rights Campaign and to agree to the next steps of the movement.

The growing problem of teenage mental health and suicide prevention in Irish schools 'is not about going to one person anymore,' Irish Minister of State for Mental Health Kathleen Lynch told the press this week.

People in Ireland have one of the highest cocaine use rates in Europe, according to a new study.

Ireland’s abandoned equine issue has reached crisis level.  With thousands of unwanted and unregulated horses roaming the Isle and being easily targeted by unscrupulous meat processing practitioners, it begs the question: have abandoned Irish horses entered the food chain?  And, more importantly, have those horses contained bute (phenylbutazone)?  Bute causes cancer in humans.

A Dublin woman has succeeded in her attempts to get the media to focus on Magdalene Laundries by trending on Twitter days ahead of the publication of a government report into the scandal.

Austerity certainly had an impact on Ireland, and the sciences weren’t spared from the influence. As part of austerity measures, Ireland chose to abolish - or absorb into another position - the role of the chief science adviser, a position that had been around since 2005, in late 2012.

A woman dies in a Galway hospital after a termination that may well have contributed to her death. Result: A twitter storm outrage, worldwide condemnation and calls for Ireland to scrap or change its regime of legal protection for unborn children.

Ireland’s Minister for Health James Reilly has refused to comment after a leak of the draft report into the Savita Halappanavar tragedy which says her request for an abortion should have been considered days before her death in a Galway hospital.

A trans-Atlantic Irish family is dealing with the cruel realization that two of their three young boys are suffering from a rare genetic illness that could take their lives if sustained medical steps aren’t taken to stem the spread of the disease.

Recent studies have found that beer is not necessarily the cause of the extra padding you may have around your midsection. In fact, beer has been found to have certain nutritional benefits while enjoyed in moderation.

The death of 29 year old Jennifer McKenna Morbelli just days after her late-term abortion in Maryland has resulted in both  pro-life and pro-choice activists speaking out.

A new system which helps doctors determine suicidal thoughts within patients is being developed at NUI Maynooth’s Department of Psychology.

Rock legend Adam Clayton has revealed how U2’s music saved him from depression – and urged the Irish government to tackle the teenage suicide issue.

Irish children who developed the completely debilitating condition of narcolepsy after receiving a swine flu vaccine called Pandemrix have yet to be offered the kind of comprehensive package of supports that children from other European nations have, and almost a year after an Irish government pledge that promised they would.

Irish middle aged women have credited ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ for causing an upsurge in their sex lives.

Almost 75 percent of Irish people regularly engage in fetish behavior, according to the latest survey.

A new study has revealed that the average Irish adult drank the equivalent of 411 pints of beer in 2012.

Police in Ireland are waiting on instructions from the DPP in regards to the suicide of a Dublin woman in 2011. Bernadette Forde took her own life after gardai prevented her from travelling to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland.

Doctor Daniele Volpe is not an ordinary Italian neurologist. In addition to heading up the Parkinson's Rehabilitation unit at the St. John of God hospital in Venice, he is a musician who loves trad and who visits Ireland frequently to play in a band.

A Dublin toddler who spent ten months in the U.S. undergoing revolutionary treatment, has finally made it home to Ireland.

A Philadelphia medical center is offering free tests for a fatal neurodegenerative disease among those of Irish descent. The blood test will screen those of Irish heritage for the fatal neurodegenerative disease that can be passed on to children when both parents are carriers of an altered gene.

Boston College has threatened disciplinary action against a group of students distributing birth-control and information on safe-sex. The Catholic institution is calling the act a violation of the university’s mission.

Editors Note: Rory Staunton aged 12 died from sepsis on April 1st 2012. His death has led to a major national campaign to end sepsis and to help children get better care in emergency rooms. Orlaith Staunton wrote this letter to her  son on the 1st anniversary of his death. It is also on rorystaunton.com

Rory, we miss your smile, your funny comeback lines, your noise, and the fun...yes, the glorious fun of spending time with you. The silence is now deafening.  It breaks my heart to see your wonderful dad, your pal, sob from loneliness, he didn’t deserve this tragedy. Your little sister bravely faces each day. She’s happy though Rory, she’s in a wonderful new school, the one she secretly talked to you about; OLQM, they won the Basketball Championship this year; we missed you so much that day. She swims, she now “owns” your iPad, and she’s looking forward to a summer of surfing. Your loss though is a huge void in her life; you shared so much banter together.

Savita Halappanavar’s husband is unhappy with the Irish government’s official report into his wife’s tragic death in a Galway hospital – and wants to meet the head of the investigation team.

A leading hospital consultant doctor has denied she ever told the husband of Savita Halappanavar that Ireland was a Catholic country and his wife could not terminate her pregnancy despite the fact that the baby was not viable.