Tuesday 17 May 2022
Is there evidence that alcohol users turn to drugs as a result of the policy?
€7.10 is now the minimum price for a bottle of wine that has an alcohol content of 12%.
Are you planning to give up drinking for the month, or is now not the time?
The cannabis was disguised in packaging as coffee, clothing and custom decals.
Comans Beverages Ltd also distributes brands like Prazky, Druids cider and Karpackie.
The Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force appeared before the Oireachtas Committee on Health today.
49 leading companies wrote to the British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps about the issue.
Alcohol Action Ireland said alcohol producers and retailers are shifting their marketing strategies.
Men are more than twice as likely as women to use drugs, according to a new survey.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has called on the WHO to review the report “as a matter of urgency”.
A video clip was of the event on 14 August last prompted outrage.
The measures will take effect in the Republic at the start of 2022, but it will be at least 2023 in the North.
Concerns were raised about the difference in the price of alcohol in the North.
If minimum pricing of 10c per gram of alcohol is introduced, would you travel North to buy drink?
Research found that every person over the age of 15 in Ireland drinks, on average, more than 10 litres of alcohol per year.
Every person in Ireland aged 15 and over drinks, on average, 10.8 litres of pure alcohol each year, according to new figures.
Survey results indicate that Irish people were drunk more times in a year than the global average.
The Global Drugs Survey 2020 found respondents in Ireland were drunk more times in a year than the global average.
The four say they did not consume alcohol not bought from parliamentary premises.
Leo Varadkar said last week the government is considering such a ban.
The enactment of another provision from the Public Health Alcohol Bill 2018 follows the introduction of the so-called “booze curtain” in November.
Leo Vardakar says the government is looking at measures around the sale of alcohol.
During the course of a search, gardaí located a number of people on the premises consuming alcohol.
Gardaí say about 15 people were in the shed near Kildare Town when it was searched.
South Africa passed one million recorded coronavirus cases yesterday.
The VFI wants off-licence opening hours to be shortened and minimum pricing to be introduced.
Pubs, restaurants and cafés in most of Scotland are to be barred from selling alcohol indoors for more than two weeks.
A minister has said it would risk “undermining the effectiveness” of minimum pricing if it’s not implemented at the same as Northern Ireland.
Published today, the latest edition of the Global Drugs Survey takes a look at how Covid-19 has changed our relationship with alcohol and drugs.
Alcohol-medication interactions can cause accidents, problems with blood pressure, and liver damage.
CEO Padraig Cribben said restrictions on the sale of alcohol from off licences and supermarkets should be considered.
Alcohol Action Ireland has called on the government to introduce minimum unit pricing.
There was a total of 1,216 drug-driving arrests made in the first six months.
There is already concern around the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on alcohol misuse.
Only a third of regular binge drinkers in Ireland recognise their drinking as harmful.
Pubs were this week warned of the consequences of failing to follow the current guidance.
Officers at Rosslare Europort seized 13,000 litres of wine earlier this week.
