Supermarkets cannot accept money from the alcohol trade without accepting the responsibility for the heartbreak cheap alcohol brings.
That was the message yesterday from the father of a 21-year-old man who took his own life after a drink-fuelled night out in Mayo last March.
In a statement to the Oireachtas Committee on Health, John Higgins, from Ballina, said that alcohol was being sold at "pocket money prices" and that it played a "very large part" in the death of his son, David.
In a statement, read out to the committee by the director of Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI), Mr Higgins told legislators: "You cannot accept the revenue generated by alcohol with open arms and not accept responsibility of the heartbreak associated with cheap alcohol."
Source: Cormac O’Keeffe, Irish Examiner, 11/11/2011
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