Europe is the heaviest drinking region in the world, and Ireland consumes alcohol at a rate around the European average. According to Healthy Ireland survey data 71% of the population…
Guest blog by Sinéad Gibney TD Forty years ago this month, the then Minister for Health Barry Desmond put his signature to a regulation requiring health warnings on cigarette packets.…
Polling data from Ireland Thinks, carried out on behalf of Alcohol Action Ireland, has found that two in three people support requiring health information labels on alcohol products, including warnings…
Some people will say anything In most cases, professionally and personally, the utterances of organisations and individuals are thoroughly investigated for veracity and accuracy – in essence, you are held…
Guest blog by Dr Breeda Neville Alcohol and cancer Cancer is now the leading cause of death in Ireland. It is responsible for almost 1/3 of all deaths each year1.…
No evidence to claim Irish people are substituting cocaine for alcohol Recently, provisional datasets from Ireland’s Revenue Commissioners indicated that alcohol consumption had decreased slightly to 9.45 litres per capita…
Why the Public Health (Alcohol) Act is more relevant than ever On 10 March 2015, in front of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, expert medical witnesses described…
This is the simple message the alcohol industry does not want you to see – a warning symbol to inform the public of the danger of alcohol consumption when pregnant.…
Introduction The alcohol industry is a multi-billion-euro sector with considerable influence to shape government policy, public perception, cultural norms, and consumer behaviour through the power they wield with the media…
On Wednesday, 3 October 2018, one of the most researched, analysed, and debated pieces of legislation in the history of the Irish state made its final journey through Dáil Eireann.…