News
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21st April 2015
Potential effects of drinking alcohol during pregnancyExposure to alcohol can seriously affect the baby’s development, particularly the brain and spinal cord.
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21st April 2015
Poll: Do you think you drink too much?The alcohol consumption of Irish women is under the spotlight as part of Action on Alcohol Week.
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21st April 2015
Two glasses of wine daily raise the risk of liver disease by 13pcWomen who relax at home with more than two large glasses of wine a day can pay a heavy health price for the indulgence.
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21st April 2015
Irish teens are starting to drink at age 13Alarming new figures that show adolescents are developing harmful alcohol habits from a very young age
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20th April 2015
Alcohol is seriously damaging women’s health – Dr Orla Crosbie‘Often these are women who are not dependent on alcohol, but are in the habit of regularly drinking. They buy wine and other alcohol as part of the weekly shop’
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20th April 2015
Anti-alcohol group fails to back new minimum price planThe controversial anti-alcohol campaign ‘Stop Out of Control Drinking’ has declined to publicly support the Government’s plans to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP) to tackle the availability of cheap alcohol.
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19th April 2015
Action on Alcohol Week 2015 launchesAction on Alcohol Week aims to raise awareness of the critical need to reduce alcohol consumption and the widespread harm that excessive drinking causes in Ireland today.
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19th April 2015
DCU academics attack Diageo’s €1m funding for drinking campaignTwo of DCU’s leading academics have criticised the controversial Diageo-funded ‘Stop Out-of-Control Drinking’ campaign, despite the fact that it is being backed by the university.
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19th April 2015
Pouring our lives away? The rise of the female wineaholicIt’s the civilised drink women across the country uncork on a daily basis but many don’t notice the glasses of wine adding up - or know the real damage they can do.
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17th April 2015
‘Some people have a romantic, bleary-eyed view of cannabis … They’re wrong’Fianna Fáil thinks the government isn’t doing enough to tackle Ireland’s drug problem so the party has launched its own policy on the issue.






