I WRITE to express appreciation for your editorial and the Alcohol and Ireland supplement (May 6).

Irish Medical Times | By Aoife Connors. ICGP members have proposed that the College should advocate the banning of alcohol advertising and below-cost selling of alcohol.

AS a new TD who called on the Government to seriously pursue a ban on the advertising of alcoholic drinks recently in Dáil Eireann, I must congratulate you on your supplement on alcohol.

ALCOHOL is a far bigger menace in Irish society than illegal drugs and tackling the problem will form a key part of a new National Drug Strategy to be launched later this year, a government minister has said.

Ireland has a bigger problem with alcohol than with drugs, the Minister of State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy said yesterday. Róisín Shortall said she was particularly concerned about the availability of alcohol for young people.

Women are now being targeted by the booze industry, but even low levels of daily drinking come with health risks