Dr Delia McGuinness tells the Irish Medical Times that GPs can play an important role in addressing the needs of young people in rural areas Increasing suicide rates and fatal…

Alcohol-free sporting facilities should be provided for young people where they can go at night and engage in sports activities of their choice, while alcohol sponsorship of sport should be…

A Dáil committee is recommending that alcohol-free sporting facilities should be provided for young people in the evenings. The committee examined the role sport can play in offering an alternative…

US bosses have low tolerance for those whom they regard as prone to alcohol abuse, writes Colum Kenny The drunken moron. The imbibing idiot. That is what they think, even…

Singer Frances Black was among those honoured at the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards in Dublin last night in recognition of her work founding a support group for assisting the families…

Alcohol and substance misuse was a factor for four out of five at-risk children who were put into special care, according to a report on childcare services in Ireland. The…

One of the highest alcohol readings ever recorded in the history of the State was detected in the blood stream of a man found dead in the toilet of a…

Female College students appear to be binge-drinking at least as often as their male counterparts and sometimes match them drink for drink, according to research published in the latest edition…

Madam, - On September 21st, the Minister for Justice announced his intention to recruit young people under 18 to engage in test-purchasing of alcohol. He made this decision on the…

Female college students are beginning to binge drink as often as their male colleagues and in some cases are drinking equal measures of alcohol, a health study has warned. Third-level…