WE LOVE TO talk about Ireland's alcohol culture - it allows us to speculate about how we drink and why we drink, without ever actually doing anything about it. We…
A study of Europe-wide police road safety operations has revealed drink- and drug-driving detection rates in Ireland are among the highest on the continent. Almost one million motorists across Europe…
The sale of cheap, below-cost, alcohol "should be banned" a Government spokesman has said. Deputy John Perry, speaking on behalf of Health Minister James Reilly, said the central aim of…
More than one-third of people who died of alcohol-related liver disease were below 34 years of age, new figures reveal. Statistics published by the Health Research Board showed that between…
Alcohol consumption among young people increases as a result of advertising campaigns and the EU should promote more responsible marketing, stakeholders agreed this week. But responsibility for dealing with the…
If Irish people halved their current alcohol consumption to the upper limit of recommended drinking levels, the health costs to the exchequer for hospital beds would drop by €80 million…
Alcohol abuse is a "serious social problem" and a "gateway" to the abuse of other substances, the new drugs minister has said. RóisÃn Shortall, minister of state at the Department…
Alcohol has been a key contributory factor in the dramatic increase in the incidence of sexually transmitted disease among young people in Kerry and Cork over the past 10 years.…
The number of young people presenting with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) more than trebled over a 12-year-period, leading research experts have said. Writing a letter to the editor in the…
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has ordered a review of the penalties which can be imposed on publicans for serving alcohol to customers who are already drunk. His decision follows…