John Treacy, chief executive of the Irish Sports Council, Kieran Mulvey, the organisation's chairman and Pat Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland have strongly spoken out against the…
Diageo says it's spent €160m on new brewing centre and banning sports sponsorship is a flawed plan From Newstalk Minister Phil Hogan has hit back at Diageo for its criticism…
Recent alcohol-fuelled controversies involving sportsmen need to end, along with alcohol sponsorship of sport, write Fiona Stanley and Mike Daube.
Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol related issues, has called on the Government not to bow to pressure from corporate interests as it prepares its plan to tackle…
The latest report on cancer in Ireland contains a telling quote about our attitude to alcohol: “Despite the attempts to combat excess alcohol intake through policy... it is clear that…
The Steering Group Report on the National Substance Misuse Strategy contains 45 recommendations to reduce alcohol-related harm in Ireland, but if you are not familiar with the process then recently…
SUICIDE IS A word with which in today’s Ireland we are all too familiar. There can be few people who don’t know, either directly or indirectly, someone who has taken their own life in recent years, and we are frequently reminded of its presence via the media.
A Department of Health proposal to ban alcohol companies' sponsorship of sports events has been questioned by other departments in their formal responses. From The Irish Times A draft memorandum…
The unholy alliance of the alcohol and sporting industries is doing serious harm to the community, warns Mike Daube, Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University He asks: How can we take seriously expressions of concern about alcohol from sporting authorities such as Cricket Australia, NRL and A
Alcohol Action Ireland says Diageo's threat to scale back its Irish operations highlights the potential of proposed measures to improve public health Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol…