GARDAÃ SAY THEY operated 63 per cent more mandatory alcohol checkpoints on Ireland's roads last weekend than on the same weekend last year. From thejournal.ie Provisional figures published by the…
Alcohol abuse is the curse of the Irish and any attempts by the Government to change our attitude to drink must be welcomed. There are two sides to the argument…
The Rapid Alcohol Detox Acute Hospital Referrals (RADAR) unit aims to break the cycle of people with alcoholism regularly going to hospital with either alcohol-related injuries or chronic health problems caused by their addiction
The Government is on a collision course over proposals to address alcohol misuse by banning drink companies from sponsoring major sporting events. From the Irish Examiner It has emerged that…
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…