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24th February 2015
From the US: Tobacco companies to print warningsAmerica’s biggest tobacco companies say they are ready and willing to pass along factual public health information about cigarettes.
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24th February 2015
Cancer Society to refuse donations from cigarette-maker’s law firmThe Irish Cancer Society is to refuse donations from a high profile law firm.
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23rd February 2015
Parents need to teach their children about the dangers of alcoholRather than turning a blind eye, parents need to give a clear message about the dangers of underage drinking, a child and adolescent psychiatrist tells Helen O’Callaghan.
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23rd February 2015
Students call time on binge drinking and decide to set a good exampleEvent: Launch of National Student Alcohol Awareness Roadshow ‘Mental Drinking’.
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23rd February 2015
Make no mistake – the drinks industry cares about sales, not youImagine a world without alcohol sponsorship of sport and without drinks ads on TV. You’re imagining France, the country with a binge drinking rate one sixth that of Ireland. It’s a country where there is a genuinely sensible and mature approach to alcohol – and it’s a country, like Ireland, with a mix of statutory and non-statutory regulations for the alcohol industry.
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23rd February 2015
These maps show the world’s hard drug trade in remarkable detailDespite drastic punishments for drug dealing, up to and including death in many countries, the worldwide illegal drug trade continues to flourish.
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23rd February 2015
‘Hard to sleep in a bed with homeless on street outside’A Kerry-born nun who spent her life helping people affected by addiction found she could not rest easy in her bed in Dublin last weekend, knowing there were homeless people lying on the ground outside.
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23rd February 2015
Cross-border force urged to crack down on smugglersA special cross-border force should be set up to tackle the smuggling of fuel, cigarettes, and alcohol, and tougher laws introduced in both jurisdictions, a British-Irish parliamentary report has recommended.
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20th February 2015
Daft.ie asked to remove ‘no rent allowance’ filter from property listingsThe government has announced that landlords will no longer be able to discriminate against tenants who receive welfare payments.
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20th February 2015
These emergency drugs may be more easily available after death of 14-year-old girlThe Minister for Health is considering allowing some prescription-only medicines, like Epipens, be more readily available.
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