ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health RóisÃn Shortall has pledged. “I am committed to phasing that out over a reasonable period of time,†she said in the Dáil.
Seven years after strict new rules were introduced to stop drinks companies marketing alcohol to children, teenagers are again being targeted, a report finds.
Alcohol advertising should be banned in Europe in a bid to drive down excess boozing and associated ill health across the continent, concludes an alliance of experts in a new policy brief.
More than a fifth of young people aged 12-25 years say they have engaged in self-harm and 7pc have tried suicide. The findings which have emerged in a survey of 14,306 young people found a strong link between excessive drinking and suicidal behaviour.
on 16/05/2012 00:00:00 The findings come from a 14,306-person study on youth mental health, described as Ireland's first comprehensive national examination of the country's youth mental health issues, which will be published today.
OPINION: When it comes to laws curbing drink-related problems, the Coalition like earlier governments frets about upsetting the drinks industry, writes BRIAN O'CONNELL SINCE THE early noughties, successive Irish governments have…
International research on drinking indicates that Irish society would benefit from a minimum price being set for alcohol. Yesterday, Scotland introduced new rules to tackle binge-drinking, setting the lowest price for alcohol at 50p (60c) per unit.
An organisation representing bars and nightclubs in Northern Ireland has given its backing to a minimum price for alcohol of 50p a unit. Pubs of Ulster boss Colin Neill was speaking after the Scottish government announced it wanted to add 5p to the orig
- 04:18 PM Junior Health Minister Roisin Shorthall has said that Ireland's new minimum alcohol pricing will be similar to Scotland's. The Scottish government today announced that it is imposing a price floor of 50p per unit of alcohol - or just over 60c - in a bid to tackle binge drinking.
SCOTLAND’S health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the SNP Government wants to set a minimum price of 50p per unit of alcohol. The government says that the measure will save 500 lives a year.