SPORTS MINISTER LEO Varadkar has tabled a proposal which would see sports organisations, clubs and teams compensated for lost revenue if they opt out of sponsorship from alcohol companies.

SPORTS Minister Leo Varadkar is on a collision course with a Labour junior minister over alcohol sponsorship of sport. Also in this section Digital ad firm creating 100 jobs Burton happy to keep putting it on the long finger New blow as 'little green men' scrapped Mr Varadkar (inset) is insisting

From The Irish Times BRIAN BOYD With new scare tactics being used to stop people smoking, should we apply the same methods to the food and alcohol industries? On February…

With new scare tactics being used to stop people smoking, should we apply the same methods to the food and alcohol industries? On February 1st, the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, signed regulations which will compel tobacco firms to include graphic photographs on cigarette packs which highli

DRUG-RELATED deaths are continuing to fall with the biggest drop among heroin users. Also in this section Priest still can't talk of Jamie Bulger death Polish man stabbed Council paid €100k to lawyer for two hearings But according to new figures, it was a legal drug – alcohol – that was responsibl

By Lloyd Mudiwa. The number of deaths among drug users in Ireland due to medical causes has risen by 58 per cent in the space of just six years, according to new statistics.

MULTINATIONAL FOOD, DRINK and alcohol industries are using similar strategies to the tobacco industry to undermine public health policies, a new paper has said.

From The Irish Times letters page Sir,  – Dr James Reilly asserts that smoking poses the most serious health issue facing the country (Dáil Report, January 17th). While not discounting…

From The Irish Times PAUL CULLEN, Health Correspondent Ireland is facing an  “unprecedented ” growth in cancer cases as a result of an ageing population and  “lifestyle habits ”, the head of…