Nurses working in GP practices are ideally placed to identify patients with alcohol problems, it has been claimed. According to Linda Latham, an advanced nurse practitioner working in a medical practice in Dublin, the abuse of alcohol in Irish society continues to be a major problem, resulting in '
I can chart the major events of most of my adult life in glasses of wine. There was the one – crisp and white – I had in a sunny…
As specialists in liver disease, my colleagues and I have seen at first hand the results of the increase in alcohol consumption of recent years. As a nation, we are…
Alcohol Action Ireland welcomes the Department of Health's indication that it will tackle the pricing, marketing and availability of alcohol Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol related issues,…
New legislation banning drink sponsorship of sporting events was required because sport cannot be “so intimately related to drinking”, Minister of State for Trade and Development Joe Costellohas said. From…
Doctors have welcomed Government plans to address alcohol misuse, but sports chiefs have warned removing sponsorship by drinks groups could leave huge funding shortages. From the Irish Examiner Ministers are…
A CROSS-party committee is set to oppose the banning of alcohol sponsorship of major sporting events such as the Heineken Cup, as cabinet divisions on the issue continue. From the…
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar is resisting moves to pinpoint a date by which drink firms should be banned from sponsoring big sporting events in a Government clampdown on…
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland says it welcomes the Government's proposals to curb the excessive consumption of alcohol in Ireland. From the Irish Examiner In a statement issued…
Labour's Roisin Shortall has said the link needs to be broken between sport and the promotion of alcohol. From RTE Speaking on RTÉ's News at One programme, Ms Shortall said…