The rise of mighty merlots, stonking sauvignons and potent pinots has been a defining feature of our recent love affair with wine. And as the taste has got ever bigger so too has the amount of alcohol in our glass.
Drinking is something we enjoy and inevitably see as an integral part of adult life. Culturally, alcohol is in our blood — and, for many, literally so.
IT'S what your offspring are thinking about but don't want to mention: excessive drinking by their parents.
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, has written to the UK's leading supermarkets demanding action after Department of Health (DoH) officials said that the retail giants had failed to follow through on commitments to remov
How many millions of euro do we spend as a nation warning young people against the dangers of drink? I wonder if we're wasting most of it. Messages from Government and State agencies often centre on health risks.
The number of young people presenting with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) more than trebled over a 12-year-period, leading research experts have said. Writing a letter to the editor in the…
The number of alcohol-related hospital admissions in England has topped 1m for the first time, according to official statistics.
HEROIN and tranquillisers are the most common drugs resulting in treatment after alcohol and cannabis in Cork and Kerry.
THE number of young people presenting with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) more than trebled over a 12-year-period, leading research experts have said.
on 25/05/2011 09:13:48 There are calls for the introduction of a floor price for alcohol. It comes as European Week Against Cancer gets underway. One in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 cancers in women are caused by alcohol.