85% of people believe levels of alcohol consumption in Ireland are too high, a new survey on public attitudes has found.

From the Irish Examiner Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has backed proposals to ban the alcohol industry from sponsoring sports events, and the idea that concert-goers should be scanned for weapons.…

The column inches dedicated to what happened at Swedish House Mafia and Co. are longer than the queue for the portaloos at Florence + The Machine, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing more to read about it.

Letter to the Irish Independent So the country is shocked at what its youth gets up to when they gather to drink at a music festival. Spare me. Go to…

SIX hours before Swedish House Mafia took to the stage on Saturday night, an undeniable air of menace clung to Phoenix Park. Even that early in the day, before the gates to the concert venue had opened, the prospect of trouble ahead looked certain.

A NATIONWIDE SURVEY has revealed that almost 90 per cent of students admit to underage drinking. The survey of 1,450 students across the country showed that 74 per cent of college students had been served alcohol while underage in off-licences and supermarkets, according to the Student Marketing Ne