Alcohol has an “enormous bearing” on suicide and self-harm rates in Ireland, Minister of State with responsibility for Mental Health Kathleen Lynch said yesterday. From The Irish Times She was…
Irish people last year spent € .6.3 billion on alcohol, as an increasing number drank at home and fewer consumed their beer, wine or spirits in public houses. Alcohol consumption…
Ireland's 7,400 pubs have combined debts of more than €2 billion and are continuing to feel the pinch from the recession, according to a report on the sector by AIB…
Students are invited to apply to live in alcohol-free apartments as part of a pilot scheme at University College Cork. From The Irish Times Consumption of alcohol in specific alcohol-free…
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…
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…
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…
A Department of Health proposal to ban alcohol companies' sponsorship of sports events has been questioned by other departments in their formal responses. From The Irish Times A draft memorandum…