There has been a dramatic increase in the number of young people hospitalised for liver disease and dying from alcohol-related conditions, a group of leading doctors has warned. From RTE.ie…
Discharge rates for alcoholic liver disease increased by 247 per cent for 15-34 year-olds between 1995 and 2007 From The Irish Times Paul Cullen, Health Correspondent The Government needs to…
Doctors from the Royal College of Physicians are calling on the government to introduce a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. From the Irish Examiner It is after new…
Ireland operates as a “conveyor belt” for the alcohol industry with 60,000 children starting to drink every single year, an Oireachtas committee has heard. By Cormac O'Keeffe in the Irish…
’We facilitate the drinks industry to groom our children,' psychiatrist tells committee Dr Bobby Smyth, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with Alcohol Action Ireland: it was with “typical arrogance” that…
DOCTORS today demanded a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sporting events warning the drinks industry is “grooming” child drinkers. From independent.ie Treacy Hogan And one of the country's leading doctors…
Alcohol Action Ireland appeared before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications this morning and made the case that alcohol sponsorship of sports should be phased out in the interests…
Pub business falls by nearly one third in five years
The lack of strict legislation governing alcohol advertising and sponsorship is allowing Irish children to be “groomed” by the alcohol industry, the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications has heard…
Professor Joe Barry, Public Health Specialist and Board Member of Alcohol Action Ireland: I would now like to follow on from what Dr Smyth has told you and thank you…