Drink drivers to get second chance under lower limits
Motorists face penalty points and on-the-spot fines in new regime
Release Junior Cert results on a Friday “to combat booze binges”
SENATOR AVERIL POWER has proposed a way to combat underage drinking – put out the Junior Certificate results on a Friday rather than the traditional Wednesday.
Children aged four in Wales A & E’s for drink and drugs
Children as young as four have been treated in accident and emergency departments in Wales for the effects of alcohol, research shows.
Dead garda’s family calls for better help for alcoholics
THE family of a former garda found frozen to death in Wales has called for better support for sufferers of alcoholism in both Ireland and Wales.
Britons drink 5,800 pints in a lifetime and suffer 726 hangovers
Thirsty Britons consume more than 5,800 pints and 8,700 glasses of wine during their lifetime, new research has shown.
British ladettes match men in binge drinking as they top European poll of alcohol abusers
British women have topped a European league of ‘ladette’ drinking shame. They are now as likely to binge on alcohol as men, according to EU research. In every other country in the study men outdrank women – sometime
Changing passport age to drink in US a federal crime — warning
Irish students working in the USA for the summer have been warned not to modify their passport ages to gain entry into bars or clubs. The Union of Students in Ireland said today that it was aware that some students have been placing laminates on their passports' details page in order to change thei
Alcohol companies exploiting Facebook by ‘targeting youngsters with drinks ads’
Children and young people are being targeted by alcohol companies via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new report. The study for the charity Alcohol Concern found social media and own
DRINKS FIRMS ‘TARGET YOUNG ONLINE’
Children and young people are being targeted by alcohol companies via social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new report.
Irish teens starting to drink earlier
Young people in Ireland begin drinking at a younger age today than their peers did 10 years ago, a leading charity has warned. According to Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI), new research has shown that those born in Ireland in 1980 began drinking when they were around 16 years of age.
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