THE physical and financial cost of Ireland?s relationship with alcohol was spelled out when a survey showed that one in 11 people had reported that they or a family member had been assaulted by someone under the influence of alcohol in the past year.
PARENTS ARE facilitating young people ���������misusing alcohol . . . by providing product and events���������, the Minister of State for Primary Care has said.
The true extent of alcohol-related violence and intimidation has been revealed in startling new research. According to a survey commissioned by the charity, Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI), half of people say they have experienced some type of alcohol-related intimidation, threat or violence during th
Even as health experts warn of rising alcohol consumption among under-18s, nightclubs are giving alcohol away to lure customers CLUB PROMOTERS are calling it a sprint to the bottom.
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.