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Drink sponsors in sport to stay, insists Varadkar

Sports Minister Leo Varadkar is on a collision course with a Labour junior minister over alcohol sponsorship of sport.

Mr Varadkar (inset) is insisting a ban on alcohol sponsorship in sport would have no effect on underage drinking – and said binge drinking among teenagers is actually rising in France, where strict advertising bans are in place.

Labour junior health minister Alex White is set to take up where his predecessor Roisin Shortall left off, pushing for tighter constraints on alcohol sponsorship.

But Mr Varadkar has set himself against this, saying there is "no evidence to show that a ban on sponsorship would be effective in terms of reducing alcohol consumption amongst youths".

The issue has already caused differences in Cabinet, with Health Minister James Reilly backing up his junior minister, but others, such as Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney and Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, are understood to agree with Mr Varadkar.

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Source: Fiach Kelly, Irish Independent, 21/02/13

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