Deputy Buttimer and committee members, thank you for having us here today. My name is Fiona Ryan and I am the director of Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for…
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CALLS HAVE BEEN MADE this week by a number of national charities and medical representative organisations for the introduction of minimum pricing on alcohol.
THE effects of the recession are biting hard, with a massive jump in unemployment among people seeking treatment for alcohol.
Below-cost alcohol to be banned from April The Scottish government is determined to introduce a minimum price per unit of alcohol A ban on the sale of alcohol below a minimum price will be introduced in England and Wales from 6 April 2012.
The cost of below-cost alcohol Below-cost selling of alcohol has been linked to the rise in alcoholism, teenage drinking and even suicide. Anton McNulty looks at the issues surrounding it.
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Tackle alcohol pricing to cut €3.7 billion bill from alcohol-related harm National charities and medical representative organisations back call for minimum pricing Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related…
Women can increase their risk of breast cancer by drinking as little as three small glasses of wine a week, a study has found. Alcohol is a known risk factor…
Regularly drinking even a small quantity of alcohol could increase the risk of breast cancer, say researchers. A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested that between three and six small glasses of wine a week was linke