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ALCOHOL SPONSORSHIP of sports events is to be ended, Minister of State for Health Róisín Shortall has pledged. “I am committed to phasing that out over a reasonable period of time,” she said in the Dáil. There is “no room for ambivalence in our approach”.
Because that’s the cause of Ireland’s massive drink problem, right?
Minister To End Alcohol Sponsorship Of Sports (Maire O’Halloran, Irish Times)
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health he “just got the provisional figures from the CSO” which showed the average per capita consumption of pure alcohol increased from 11.9 litres in 2010 to 12 litres (11.97 litres) last year.
“That’s against the background of increased affordability of alcohol.”
Dr Holohan was addressing the committee as chairman of the Department’s steering group the National Substance Misuse Strategy, along with Minister of State for primary care, Róisín Shortall. The strategy aims to cut average alcohol consumption to 9.1 litres of alcohol per adult.
The Committee also heard about plans to end home deliveries of alcohol.
People, we have a problem.
Alcohol consumption increases (Irish Times)
(Photocall Ireland)
Spotted in M&S Dundrum yesterday.
It’s a slippery slope, though. First Cointreau and Wensleydale, then Chimay with Trappister, then stout-infused Dubliner: before you know it, you’re sucking Dutch Gold through a box of Calvita.
(Thanks Siobhan Hanley)
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Last year, the Russian Health Ministry launched a Public Service Announcement campaign warning of the dangers of alcohol psychosis. The star was a tormented rodent by the name of Hell-Squirrel. A smart ass distillery has, of course, made a line of high-proof vodka featuring the anti-drinking mascot.
