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16th October 2012
Gear Up For Swords Safety WeekSwords Community Policing Forum is holding its third Community Safety Week from Saturday 20th to Thursday 25th of October 2012 and there will be a series of free events to highlight the many aspects of community safety.
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15th October 2012
Minimum pricing plans in Scotland shelved by ministersPlans to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol in Scotland have been postponed indefinitely by ministers as a result of a growing legal challenge to the controversial move.
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15th October 2012
Drug Education Morning in Dublin: New Drugs & Latest TrendsThe Community Awareness of Drugs Programme are holding a drug education event focusing on new drugs andn latest trrends.
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15th October 2012
Local campaign highlights drug use dangersA southside drugs task force recently staged an awareness campaign to highlight the growing problems of substance abuse in the area.
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9th October 2012
Heroin linked to 3 deaths ‘not rogue batch’The HSE has compiled a report on the findings to the Department of the Taoiseach. It said no contaminants were found in the samples and that, given the presence of cutting agents, the heroin appeared to be “very normal”.
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9th October 2012
Minister to introduce test for drug drivingA test which will allow gardaí to check for drug driving will be introduced as part of a new Road Traffic Bill, Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar has said.
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8th October 2012
Quitting smoking? New campaign uses social media to encourage people to quitA new campaign is using social media to help people who are trying to give up smoking.
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8th October 2012
Drinks groups ‘undermine’ reportThe Department of Justice accused two drinks’ industry groups involved in a Government alcohol strategy committee of trying to “undermine” its final report.
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8th October 2012
Departments lobbied against plans to end sport sponsorship by drink firmsGovernment departments repeatedly lobbied against proposals to end sport sponsorship by the drinks industry, internal memos show.
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6th October 2012
Gardai fear more deaths as ‘pure’ heroin kills twoGARDAI fear more deaths from a batch of high-grade heroin which has killed two young men and left seven others fighting for their lives.