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RE: Arthurs day ..... Drinks body tries to deliberately soften wording of damning report relating alcohol to domestic violence and rape
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Friday April 13, 2012 18:52 by lefty
The Examiner has an interesting article today for those of you as horrified as I was to witness first hand the alcohol fuelled breakdown of our society on the streets that was St Patrick's Night. In light of this report, perhaps those in government who still have some semblance of a moral compass remaining could override their complete deference to money, economic considerations and profit as the most important things in our society, and might now consider removing sales of cheap alcohol from supermarkets. This is long overdue as the strains on our already underfunded health system from alcohol related cases and the social breakdown exacerbated by the availability of cheap alcohol, often cheaper than bottled water, are becoming more and more pronounced.
by P Naughton Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:24
I am appending the following comment to this thread , for which it was originally intended . I had originally posted it by mistake to another thread concerning the drinks industry.
by lefty Sun Apr 15, 2012 18:20
"Just last week Lefty referred to “wacky” Muslim beliefs on a thread about the "crucifixion party" that was held in Dublin on Good Friday . Now she is getting accused of being a bit like a Muslim herself - crime of crimes ! You are damned either as a killjoy or as a wacko if you’re a Muslim on Indymedia Ireland , there's nothing in between they're all either crazy or else just plain nasty . And the very same people that are calling Muslims wacko one day will often be calling them killjoys the next !
by JoeMc Sun Apr 15, 2012 14:59
Lefty's well-meaning use of the pics shown above to get the anti-alcohol message across won't work in my opinion. If anything that (staged?) pic of the leggy girl laying in a prone position in front of a litter bin on what looks like Dublin's O Connell St will if anything boost alcohol sales to youngsters . The same goes for the pic of the pleasant looking lad with the booze bottle who is pulling a funny face in another pic .
by Moderation Mandy Sun Apr 15, 2012 02:53
In 19th century Britain gin palaces and smoky beerhalls were the alternative social meeting places to the churches. Drink was regarded as 'the curse of the working class'. Leaders of social reform movements, including the Chartists and the trades unions, automatically gave verbal support to the temperance movement. These leaders knew that workers who squandered their low wages on booze deprived families of basic nourishment as well as damaging home life with domestic violence. Workers who struggled to end the control of alcohol over their lives were then better able to struggle with their unions for better wages and conditions of work.
by lefty Sun Apr 15, 2012 00:27
below cost selling of alcohol as a loss leader by tesco and others:
by lefty Sun Apr 15, 2012 00:09
Another even more interesting article by the examiner:
by lefty Sat Apr 14, 2012 20:56
Instead of derailing this one, why don't you go away and write such an article?. This one is about political machinations of drinks companies lobbyists not men vs women. It doesn't really matter who is the party wronged / in the wrong because in either case, both lives are destroyed and drink is a major factor in this destruction of lives. Changing the law and society to make rape convictions even more difficult is clearly not the solution at all here. Getting drink out of the equation as much as possible however clearly is.
by Mano Mono Sat Apr 14, 2012 16:16
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Jump To Comment: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1That report appears to have been actually published in Feb 2012 -unless it was delayed? And the press release for it from back in Feb 2013 on the Dept of Health website about the above report and it can be found here:
http://www.dohc.ie/press/releases/2012/20120207.html
And the report can downloaded from here
http://www.dohc.ie/publications/a_substance_misuse_stra....html
But the report is attached here to make it easier to find it.
Here's some bullet points from the report I found particularly interesting or damming of the industry, but there is many more. It is worth just reading the first chapter which gives many of these bullet points even if you don't get around to reading the rest of it.
* Irish 16–21 year olds list alcohol
advertisements as fi ve of their top ten
favourite advertisements.
* Alcohol is associated with 2,000 beds being
occupied every night in Irish acute hospitals,
one-quarter of injuries presenting to emergency
departments and over half of attendances to
specialised addiction treatment centres.
* Between 2000 and 2004 alcohol was
estimated to lead to 10.3 per cent of bed-days
(3,428,973 bed-days) in acute Irish hospitals.17
In 2003–2004, 28 per cent of injuries
presenting to emergency departments were
recorded as being due to alcohol
National Substance Misuse Steering Group Report on Alcohol in Ireland (Feb 2012) 2.6 Mb