A MOTHER will spend the next eight years in prison after a catalogue of shocking violence against eight of her children, which included regularly attaching vice grips to her children’s faces as punishment.

Alcohol associated illness cost Irish hospitals more than €800 million in a five-year period and accounted for almost 9 per cent of all hospital bed days, far greater than previously thought, new research has found.

The Mayor of Navan has revealed he had to give up walking his dog at the local Ramparts because of the activities of "antisocial elements" engaged in drinking alcohol along the Boyne.

UP to 170 people are dying from alcohol-related illnesses each year, according to a new report which reveals the full extent of Ireland's drink 'crisis'.