A NEW SOCIAL media craze that has reached Irish shores, in which people are encouraged to film themselves chugging back alcoholic drinks, promotes harmful binge drinking, according Alcohol Action Ireland.…
What is the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill? The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill will contain a package of measures designed to tackle our harmful relationship with alcohol, reducing alcohol consumption and…
The addiction industries – gambling, alcohol and now sugar – had it tough last week. All are under pressure to defend their industries against increasing evidence of their harm and…
Parents probably wrung their hands at the news that drunk teenagers who turn up at Dublin 4's legendary disco at Old Wesley Rugby Club are looked after in an on-site…
IT'S depressing to hear that the Wezz disco has had to introduce a “drunk-tank” for children who've had too much alcohol. From Independent.ie My eldest will be going to her…
The British Medical Journal's investigation into the role played by the alcohol industry in public health policy focuses on the government's decision to drop its commitment to introduce a minimum…
In a BMJ investigation, Jonathan Gornall discovers that the government consultation into introducing a minimum unit price for alcohol in England and Wales was a sham and that politicians ignored…
Everybody thinks they know what an "alcoholic" is, but what about those who drink too much but fall short of the common definitions of alcoholism? Should there be a word…
A DRINKS industry-funded group was tipped off by a Department of Health official that its views were not included in a confidential government anti-alcohol abuse memo. From the Irish Independent…
The notorious incident ”” in which Cork TD Tom Barry pulled Fine Gael colleague Ãine Collins down onto his lap in the early hours of the morning as deputies voted…