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The use and abuse of alcohol in Ireland

Thursday 1st November

A conference on the abuse of alcohol in Ireland saw 27 national charities, community and medical representative organisations back calls for minimum pricing... Organised by Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol related issues, we spoke with their Director, Fiona Ryan.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/drivetime/programmes/2012/1101/355012-drivetime-thursday-1-november-2012/?clipid=942046

Alcohol

Wednesday 12th December

Brendan owns the “Next Door” Off Licence in Arklow, Co. Wicklow. He describes himself as the new poor. He has to compete with the supermarkets who have slashed the price of alcohol.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/programmes/2012/1212/358078-liveline-wednesday-12-december-2012/?clipid=976801

Alcohol - the risks of excess and the rewards for abstinence.

Thursday 3rd January

The relationship that Irish society has with alcohol has long been identified as dysfunctional - a strain on our health service and the cause of crime on our streets, abuse in homes, and deaths on the roads. To lay it out in stark terms, the cost of alcohol related crime is estimated at one point two billion annually; there are two thousand hospital beds taken up each night as a direct or indirect result of drink...and that costs the taxpayer well over three billion euro. We are told that moderate drinking is not harmful, but drawing that line between moderate ...

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/today-with-pat-kenny/programmes/2013/0103/361148-today-with-pat-kenny-thursday-3-january-2013/?clipid=976694

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