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Shops and off-licences are to be given a series of options aimed at making alcohol less visible to customers as part of a compromise deal put forward by the Government.

Health Minister Simon Harris has been forced to water down the controversial Public Health Alcohol Bill after it met with major opposition from lobby groups and a number of Fine Gael politicians.

In dealing with the generators of crime such as the incidents of contraventions of the Liquor Act which often is the main cause of contact crimes, the police have confiscated large quantities of liquor during a joined clean-up operation throughout this Province.

While UK millennials are drinking less than their parents’ generation, they remain a significant market for alcohol producers, as they are less likely to change consumption habits than their counterparts in other countries, according to GlobalData.

THE Scottish Government has been challenged to set a national licensing policy for alcohol, as part of efforts to cut the availability of drink.

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The vote will not be decided by the distribution of seats between the ruling and opposition parties, as the ruling parties agreed last summer to designate the issue as a matter of conscience. 

ALCOHOL-fuelled teenage parties are set to be “a thing of the past” as the State Government moves to crack down on under-age drinking over the festive season.
Laws which come into effect from Monday will give police the power to fine or charge people who supply alcohol to under-age drinkers at organised parties.

You are what you eat, the saying goes, but what about what we drink? Dietary regulations across Europe need to be stricter if digestive disease rates are to fall, writes Thierry Ponchon.

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Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci was at Eau Claire Distillery in Turner Valley Friday with some good news for the province's smaller-scale liquor producers.

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IT TOOK less than five minutes for two teenagers to buy a bottle of Goodman whisky from a liquor shop in Taman United in Jalan Kelang Lama recently.

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When a sexagenarian wobbled up to the podium at the Frank Anthony Public School in Lajpat Nagar on Saturday, clad in a brown saree, a beige button-down cardigan and sporting a bindi, like every other Indian grandmother you meet in India, the words out of her mouth seemed misplaced.