A podcast produced by Alcohol Action Ireland featuring independent analysis of our societal relationship with alcohol.
Join the call for the urgent implementation of Minimum Pricing for all alcohol products
Fostering healthy coping tools that will last long beyond COVID-19
The impact of alcohol misuse extends far beyond the individual drinker
It is now two years since the enactment of the Public Health Alcohol Act. And while some aspects of the Act have been implemented, much remains to be done. Many important measures, crucial to the...
Over the past number of months, Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) has contributed to a range of consultations[1], media articles[2], research initiatives[3] and other advocacy efforts in relation to children and the harm that alcohol causes in their lives.[4] This awareness...
Alcohol Action Ireland, the national independent advocate for reducing alcohol harm, today (13 Oct) welcome that Budget 2021 has not reduced alcohol excise duties and that the Ministers, guided by public health alcohol policy, have not acquiesced to the extensive...
Pre Budget Submission to Budget 2021 for the Minister of Finance
September 2020
AAI contribution to the current review of the Child Care Act in line with the commitment set out in Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: The National Policy Framework on Children and Young People 2014–2020, to review and reform, as necessary, the Child Care Act 1991.
September 2020.
This research paper was carried out by UCC student Leslie Keating and explores and highlight the unique challenges that adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) face in the context of mental health and wellbeing.
The project uses some of Alcohol Action Ireland’s short stories of lived experience submitted via the ‘Silent Voices’ website, as well as interviews with 7 adults who identify as Adult Children of Alcoholics.
Pre Budget submission to the Department of Finance August 2018
Ireland Thinks poll, commissioned by Alcohol Health Alliance, conducted June 12th to June 16th 2017.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a cross-national research study conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and runs on a four-year cycle. In 2014, Ireland participated for the fifth time in the HBSC study (www.nuigalway.ie/hbsc). The study included 13,611 school-children from 3rd class in primary school to 5th year in post-primary school. Collectively, 230 primary and post-primary schools across Ireland participated in this study.
A podcast produced by Alcohol Action Ireland featuring independent analysis of our societal relationship with alcohol.
There is little comfort in alcohol
The voice of those who have lived with the experience of parental alcohol misuse
