on 11/11/2011 00:00:00 That was the message yesterday from the father of a 21-year-old man who took his own life after a drink-fuelled night out in Mayo last March.

HALF OF all people who drink alcohol in Ireland do so at levels that are damaging their health, an Oireachtas committee has heard. Every member of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children who spoke on the issue yesterday said the price of drink must be increased significantly if the “escalat

Fianna Fáil's Billy Kelleher has suggested that the legal age to purchase alcohol from off-licences should be raised.

CALLS HAVE BEEN MADE this week by a number of national charities and medical representative organisations for the introduction of minimum pricing on alcohol.

THE effects of the recession are biting hard, with a massive jump in unemployment among people seeking treatment for alcohol.

The cost of below-cost alcohol Below-cost selling of alcohol has been linked to the rise in alcoholism, teenage drinking and even suicide. Anton McNulty looks at the issues surrounding it.