The Revenue Commissioners have seized 3.5 times more potentially harmful counterfeit alcohol in the first seven months of 2013 than it did in the full year in 2012. From The…
Health Minister Mark Drakeford has revealed he is giving serious consideration as to whether Wales could go it alone on major public health issues such as plain cigarette packaging and…
In a first-of-its-kind decision, the highest court in France has banned a Facebook app by alcohol brand Pernod Ricard, claiming it has no place on the social network. From Social…
ALL 12 directors of public health in the North-East have signed an open letter criticising the Government's decision not to introduce minimum pricing of alcohol. From The Northern Echo Put…
The introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol will contribute to reducing the “huge” human and economic cost of alcohol related harm, it was claimed this week. From the Galway Advertiser…
FOUR broadcasters including Channel 4 and Discovery have been reprimanded by the advertising regulator for showing alcohol adverts during programmes aimed at under-18s. From The Northern Echo Paramount and Entertainment…
A LEVY ON off-licence sales would raise money to bridge the funding gap created by the loss of alcohol companies’ sponsorship of sports, the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland claims.
A group representing publicans has said revenues from an off-sales alcohol tax could replace sports sponsorship funding. From The Irish Times The statement from the Vintners Federation of Ireland follows…
Editorial in the Irish Association of Suicidology Spring/Summer newsletter by Dr John Connolly. Alcohol is a factor in approximately 45% of suicides and in 39% of attempted suicide and deliberate…