Dear Editor, As our legislators sit down to consider the matter of alcohol sponsorship in sport in the coming week, it is perhaps timely for us to consider our approach to alcohol as…
Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar has expressed concern that sports funding could be lost if a ban on sponsorship by alcohol companies is implemented. From RTE.ie Speaking on RTÉ's Morning…
Advertisements for Budweiser beer on a telephone box outside a school and a range of Jim Beam Racing children's clothing have been included in a list of the nation's most irresponsible alcohol ads.
The minister's strategy to tackle the misuse of alcohol is scheduled to be discussed by Cabinet members this week. From the Irish Examiner However, there were suggestions at the weekend…
A new "stress test" of Irish pubs shows that half of them are rated as facing a high risk of failure. From the Sunday Independent The review of the hospitality…
CHRISTY Moore once wrote a song about climbing up the walls in the cold, grey reality of the aftermath of a serious bender. From the Irish Examiner Delirium Tremens as…
It is inevitable that alcohol sponsorship in sport will eventually be banned. But the latest ham-fisted attempt to do away with it shows Irish politics up for what it is,…
Alcohol abuse, drug abuse and mental illness feature in many of the cases published by the Child Care Law Reporting Project today. From The Irish Times The latest tranche of…
Alcohol product placement is in the spotlight (again) thanks to a new study by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center that found alcohol brand placement "was found increasingly in movies…
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…