A LABOUR MINISTER has confirmed that the government is pressing ahead with plans to ban drinks companies from sponsoring sporting events. Róisin Shortall told the Dáil that Irish society can no longer tolerate the level of alcohol abuse in this country, particularly among young people, who are part
SPORTS ADVERTISING AND sponsorship by alcohol companies is to be phased out “over a reasonable period of timeâ€, Deputy Minister RoisÃn Shortall said this week.
INTERNATIONAL experts meeting in the North-East have called for all alcohol advertising to be banned and minimum drink pricing introduced. The Addiction and Lifestyle in Contemporary Europe conference - held in Newcastle this week - aims to tackle the mass
SHARES in cider maker C&C fell yesterday after the company said sales were hit by changing drinking habits which mean that consumers are drinking at home and avoiding pubs.
ONE in eight deaths of working age adults in the UK is caused by alcohol, new research has claimed, putting the figure at more than twice the current estimate for Scotland.
The Government should push through plans to limit the sale of alcohol, and alcohol sponsorship of sport and culture events despite Cabinet divisions, Kathleen Lynch, the junior health minister, said yesterday.
ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health RóisÃn Shortall has pledged. “I am committed to phasing that out over a reasonable period of time,†she said in the Dáil.
Seven years after strict new rules were introduced to stop drinks companies marketing alcohol to children, teenagers are again being targeted, a report finds.
Alcohol advertising should be banned in Europe in a bid to drive down excess boozing and associated ill health across the continent, concludes an alliance of experts in a new policy brief.
More than a fifth of young people aged 12-25 years say they have engaged in self-harm and 7pc have tried suicide. The findings which have emerged in a survey of 14,306 young people found a strong link between excessive drinking and suicidal behaviour.