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
There is little comfort in alcohol; foster healthy coping tools that will last long beyond COVID-19 Alcohol Action Ireland today (27 March) has published a set of advice guidelines to help people understand the risk of turning to alcohol...
This paper was first presented at the Sixth Global Alcohol Policy Conference in Dublin, Ireland. March 9-11, 2020 by Eunan McKinney, Head Communications and Advocacy, Alcohol Action Ireland. Abstract Nation-states grapple with developing and implementing effective alcohol control policies....
Our colleagues at Mental Health Ireland have shared five simple actions we can all take to protect our mental health and maintain positive wellbeing during uncertain and challenging times. The CEO of Mental Health Ireland, Martin Rogan, says, “By now,...
The WHO Director-General is to “report to the Seventy-third World Health Assembly in 2020, through the Executive Board, on the implementation of WHO’s global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol during the first decade since its endorsement, and the way forward”.
To this end, the WHO Secretariat hosted a consultation from 24 October 2019 until 4 November 2019 on a discussion paper dated 21 October 2019. Member States, UN organizations and non-State actors were invited to submit their comments.
In this document you will find our submission.
Submission to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs Statement of Strategy, 2020-2022.
This Pre-Budget submission seeks to advise the Minister’s consideration of Budget 2020 on four important
matters: alcohol products tax; state subsidies to the alcohol industry; establishment of social responsibility levy on Off-Trade alcohol sales and the introduction of Minimum unit pricing for alcohol products.
The preliminary findings of this report, which examined the toxicology reports of those killed in road crashes in 2014, has revealed that 31% of people killed had alcohol in their system at the time of their deaths.
A factsheet from the National Cancer Control Programme on alcohol and cancer.
An updated (November 2016) fact sheet on alcohol in Ireland from the Health Research Board.
There is little comfort in alcohol
The voice of those who have lived with the experience of parental alcohol misuse
Global alcohol industry invests significant resources to promote its corporate social responsibility
