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4th February 2015
Alcohol health warnings to tackle bingeingAlcoholic drinks will carry calorie counts, health warnings, and a minimum price floor under a wide-ranging Government bid to combat abuse.
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3rd February 2015
Fitzgerald is looking at possibility of allowing Good Friday alcohol salesThe Minister for Justice has confirmed she is examining the possibility of lifting the ban on alcohol sales on Good Friday.
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3rd February 2015
Heavy drinking increases stroke riskHeavy drinking in your 50s and 60s significantly increases the risk of stroke, even more so than traditional risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study has found.
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2nd February 2015
THEATREclub’s award winning play ‘HEROIN’ remaining national datesThe show effectively charts the rise of heroin, and society’s inability to deal with it, from the late 1970s to the present day…
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2nd February 2015
UK trialling outdoor smokefree zonesTwo city squares will become Britain’s first major public outdoor spaces to go smokefree when a voluntary pilot launches today.
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2nd February 2015
Drink is root of half all relationship woesNearly half of Irish couples who’ve turned to marriage counsellors since Christmas say alcohol is the root cause of their relationship woes.
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30th January 2015
Women now drink as much as menWomen are now drinking as much as men, a study of college students has found.
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30th January 2015
Child law czar: No ambivalence on drink sponsors in sportThe government-appointed expert on child law has warned there can be no ambivalence over alcohol advertising and sponsorship of sports events, even if it means “tough decisions” have to be made.
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30th January 2015
Opinion: Our harmful drinking culture impacts us all – we urgently need to tackle itA University College Cork study on hazardous alcohol consumption and third-level students published in the BMJ Open medical journal today, 30 January 2015, has found a high prevalence of hazardous alcohol consumption (66.4%) among the 2,275 undergraduates who responded compared to the general population.
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29th January 2015
‘Worse now than the heroin epidemic of the 80s’ – Christy Burke on drugs in DublinDublin’s Lord Mayor Christy Burke has said that the drugs problem in Dublin is worse now than it was during the heroin epidemic thirty years ago.
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