🇮🇪 ALWAYS shows Public Health leadership
1st smoking ban in these islands
Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing following 🏴’s example
🏴’s @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer & @UKLabour please take note
Alcohol regulation saves lives
(and money, obviously)
NICE recommended in 2010
GUEST BLOG⬇️: Dr Breeda Neville gives an expert analysis of links between alcohol & cancer. In the EU in 2017, almost 1 in 7 of all alcohol-attributable cancers were caused by drinking around a pint a day. Consumers need to know the risks @MichealMartinTD
Expert analysis: Alcohol and cancer - Alcohol Action Ireland
Guest blog by Dr Breeda Neville Alcohol and cancer Cancer is now the leading cause of death in Ireland. It is ...
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Many alcohol brands from New Zealand & elsewhere are adding health info labelling to products sold in Irl ahead of scheduled start in 2026. It’s attracting notice internationally as Irl shows public health leadership.
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@CarrollJennifer
Villa Maria adds fatal cancer warning label on bottles sold in Ireland
A warning label about the direct link between alcohol and fatal cancers now appears on Villa Maria wines sold in Ireland.
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Great to see health info labels now on Irish alcohol products too. Labels can be found on dozens of alcohol brands from multiple countries. Why delay what's already here? Why deny consumers their right to know the health risks? Ireland must proceed with labels @MichealMartinTD
.@AlcHealthwatch tells @MichealMartinTD how Ireland’s leadership on alcohol labelling has inspired others & conversations about cancer warning labels are now occurring in Australia & New Zealand 👏 Ireland must lead again & proceed as planned with labels
https://alcoholireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Letter-to-the-Ireland-Government-Alcohol-Warning-Labels-Alcohol-Healthwatch-NZ-July-2025.pdf
.@SheilaGilheany tells @PatKennyNT how talk of EU-wide alcohol health labels is disingenuous as no such proposal is on table. Ireland's labels are already here both in law & on shelves. The right decision is to proceed @CarrollJennifer @MichealMartinTD
Calls for Government to resist delaying health labelling on alcohol products | Newstalk
The Government is expected to defer the implementation of health warning labels on alcohol produc...
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'Patients frequently say I didn't know this could happen to me' - Prof Frank Murray outlines how critical alcohol health info labels are to public health in Ireland. The right decision for Govt is to proceed as planned @CarrollJennifer @MichealMartinTD
AAI: Plan to defer alcohol health labels is disappointing
Professor Frank Murray, Chairperson of Alcohol Action Ireland, discusses the government's plans to defer health labellin...
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Multiple organisations calling on the government to stick with alcohol health information labels. @PatKennyNT
These regs have been through multiple democratic processes including at EU level and have been found to be proportionate to the scale of the alcohol issues in Ireland and not a barrier to trade.
Delaying their introduction has real impacts on health and economy. @PatKennyNT
Labels are already here, both in law & on shelves with businesses expecting Ireland implements its stated law. Why then are Govt thinking about hiding the truth of health risks from alcohol from the public, which is what delaying these regulations would mean? @PatKennyNT
Alcohol and tobacco industry playbooks are deeply intertwined. Threats and overblown claims of devastation are par for the course. @MichealMartinTD has seen this before and must stand firm again re alcohol health labelling.
@AlcoholIreland @CarrollJennifer @MichealMartinTD This is a news article from 2017, indicating that the Tobacco companies threatened to destroy the Irish economy unless there was a delay in legislation. https://independent.ie/irish-news/tobacco-giants-threaten-to-undermine-irelands-economy-in-an-attempt-to-block-plain-packaging-laws/36021199.html
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