LAST NIGHT WE brought you the first of our two-part video series following a Dublin Fire Brigade ambulance crew, which showed paramedics treating a cyclist injured in a collision and…
The Revenue Commissioners have seized 3.5 times more potentially harmful counterfeit alcohol in the first seven months of 2013 than it did in the full year in 2012. From The…
The introduction of minimum pricing for alcohol will contribute to reducing the “huge” human and economic cost of alcohol related harm, it was claimed this week. From the Galway Advertiser…
A LEVY ON off-licence sales would raise money to bridge the funding gap created by the loss of alcohol companies’ sponsorship of sports, the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland claims.
A group representing publicans has said revenues from an off-sales alcohol tax could replace sports sponsorship funding. From The Irish Times The statement from the Vintners Federation of Ireland follows…
Editorial in the Irish Association of Suicidology Spring/Summer newsletter by Dr John Connolly. Alcohol is a factor in approximately 45% of suicides and in 39% of attempted suicide and deliberate…
AUSTRALIA'S alcopops tax is being examined as a model for an alternative source of funding when the ban on alcohol sponsorship of sport comes into effect. From the Irish Independent…
ALCOHOL plays a significant role in many fatal assaults that occur on the street, in licensed premises and at house parties, according to the Deputy State Pathologist Michael Curtis. From…
The Government is considering slapping a special tax on booze after agreeing to ban alcohol companies sponsoring major sporting events by 2020. From the Irish Mirror The Cabinet's sub committee…
Government Ministers remain deadlocked over banning alcohol sponsorship in sport, with those pushing for the move being told they will have to come up with alternative sources of funding. From…