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5th February 2015
NI ‘must follow’ ROI on alcohol pricingProposals were put forward by Irish Health Minister Leo Varadkar earlier this week which would make it illegal to sell drink below a set price in the Republic.
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5th February 2015
Cutting alcohol consumption: details of new BillAdvertising alcoholic drinks in a way intended to appeal to children will be banned as part of the Government’s new legislation designed to reduce consumption.
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5th February 2015
Shortall: New drink laws fall shortThe Coalition’s proposed measures to tackle alcohol misuse do not go far enough and are unlikely to be delivered before the general election, former junior health minister Róisín Shortall has said.
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4th February 2015
Alcohol legislation ‘most far reaching yet’, VaradkarMinister for Health Leo Varadkar has described the range of measures announced on Tuesday to reduce alcohol consumption as the most far reaching yet to curb the misuse of alcohol.
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4th February 2015
Drink blitz sees bottle of wine rise to €9 minimumA bottle of wine would cost a minimum of €8.80 and a can of beer at least €2.20 under proposals aimed at outlawing cheap alcohol sales.
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4th February 2015
Government publishes far-reaching measures to tackle alcohol misuseCabinet has today (3 February 2015) signed off on far-reaching proposals to reduce alcohol consumption and tackle alcohol misuse which will help Ireland to cut alcohol consumption to the OECD average by 2020 and reduce the harm associated with alcohol misuse.
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4th February 2015
There’s no heroin here, it’s only a Dublin thing’ – it’s complete liesWhen she was just nine years old, Grace Dyas found a syringe in her garden. That experience led her to travelling the country in her early twenties to find out more about addiction, which culminated in the Theatreclub play Heroin.
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4th February 2015
Alcohol health warnings to tackle bingeingAlcoholic drinks will carry calorie counts, health warnings, and a minimum price floor under a wide-ranging Government bid to combat abuse.
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3rd February 2015
Fitzgerald is looking at possibility of allowing Good Friday alcohol salesThe Minister for Justice has confirmed she is examining the possibility of lifting the ban on alcohol sales on Good Friday.
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3rd February 2015
Heavy drinking increases stroke riskHeavy drinking in your 50s and 60s significantly increases the risk of stroke, even more so than traditional risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure, a new study has found.
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