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27th January 2013
Sobering message about suicide few in Ireland want to hearDanny Healy-Rae thinks that people should be able to drink a couple of pints and drive home, but only on quiet country roads. Otherwise, the isolation that people suffer will put them at risk of suicide.
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25th January 2013
Shortall and Gilmore bicker over alcohol abuse legislationFormer Junior Minister Roisin Shortall has warned Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore to stop making “excuses” after he blamed her for the delay in introducing anti-alcohol abuse legislation.
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25th January 2013
Shatter: Kerry Council motion ‘grossly irresponsible’The Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said the idea of drink driving permits is “grossly irresponsible”.
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23rd January 2013
Tackling alcohol abuse is key to reducing the high suicide levels among young Irish menAlcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, has called for minimum pricing and other recommendations to reduce alcohol harm to be implemented in full in response to a new report which states that reducing our levels of drinking is one of the key ways of tackling high suicide rates among young Irish men.
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23rd January 2013
Government dismisses Healy-Rae’s bid to relax drink-driving limitResponding to the Department of Transport’s dismissal of his idea, Kerry county councillor Danny Healy-Rae told TheJournal.ie: “We’ll see about that.”
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22nd January 2013
From UK: Fears grow over contaminated ecstasy after two die and several hospitalised in ManchesterPolice link deaths of two ‘apparently fit young men’ to possible contaminated ecstasy batch
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22nd January 2013
Outrage as Healy-Rae calls for rural drink-drive permitsA council will press Justice Minister Alan Shatter for permits to be issued to people in rural areas to allow them to drive after having “two or three” drinks.
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22nd January 2013
Kerry councillors back plan to allow drink-driving ‘in moderation’Kerry county councillors have voted in favour of a motion which would allow people in rural Ireland to have ‘two or three’ drinks and still drive.
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17th January 2013
Binge drinking gave me terminal cancer – girls need to know the dangersAs she laughs and cuddles up to her boyfriend Josh Bennett, pretty Sarah Robinson looks the picture of health. But, tragically, she is dying from cancer.
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17th January 2013
Smoking greatest danger to public health, says ReillyTobacco consumption is the greatest threat to public health that Ireland faces, Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said.