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THE HSE HAS advised parents that their children need to be warned of the health dangers of drinks promotions ahead of Leaving Cert night.
The night after the Leaving Cert results have been announced has resulted in a high number of alcohol-related violent incidents and hospitalisations in the past.
Events pages for Leaving Cert results night this Wednesday encourage students to “celebrate your results or drown your sorrows” with promotions like €3 drinks.
These include Vodka Boats, “a free shot of choice”, “a glass of bubbly on arrival”, “a free bottle of champagne with tickets” and “five free drinks tokens”.
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While many Leaving Cert students are over 18 and allowed to drink alcohol, the HSE warns that the promotions could encourage students to drink a lot of alcohol within a short space of time and leave them vulnerable to taking risks.
Dr Eamon Keenan, the HSE’s National Clinical Lead of Addiction Service says that drinks promotions ”can cause rapid intoxication resulting in young people feeling disinhibited and leading to changes in their behaviour and taking risks they wouldn’t normally consider.
These include drug taking, unprotected sex, possible aggression and getting into fights.
They may also experience lowering of mood and, in some cases, depression or anxiety can be worsened.
He urged parents to talk to their children now, as advertising for Leaving Cert celebrations in clubs and bars have already begun.
“While we live in a country where alcohol promotion is pervasive,” the HSE said, “parents need to know that they are the most important influence in informing young people about the risks associated with drinking and substance use”.
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I met Enda cycling the Wild Atlantic Way during the summer. I’m not saying he’s the biggest a$$hole in Ireland but he didn’t have a saddle on his bike.
I could have swore I saw him yesterday in blue overalls painting the railings of Glasnevin cemetery. He was obviously reaching out to the lads doing their community service.
pepper, the bloke has thrown everyone who has a different story to him under the bus, he has alienated the gardai and public, he has split society between working and unemployed, country and rural, landlord tenant, public private deliberately for his own agenda’s, he cannot tell the truth on any subject, he spends his time in Europe putting “paddy” down in a vain effort to secure another nothing job. his CV is a joke 40 years in the dail and wins his seat and election by default, his tenure as head of gov will b e remembered as the most wasteful gov ever, regressive budgets and the largest homelessness problem since the famine.
you and your buddies can vote for him and his ilk as you want, but some can see with their own eyes and you know it, hence the pr war funded by your sponsor and biggest beneficiary of the economic downtown. all paid for using the public purse
I wonder what Merkel said to him before she gave him the pat on the head. Perhaps it sounded something like this:- “we haff vays of making you stupid Irelanders do vot ve vant. you vill pay back all ze money our bondholders lost in your stupid banks as I vill not allow our superior German banks to go under. now do as I say”.
I am sick of this pro F.G. nonsense, the HSE is nearly destroyed thanks to this government, the German government did 7 out of the 8 budgets now and the ECB had to inspect our last one, then scandals and scare mongering, Reilly, carehome, horse meat covney, hogan trip to Dubai with secretary, property tax, shatter and breath test, Shatter’s book Laura, Shatter’s lump sum after removal, and on and on and on it goes… Giving extra money to bondholders after paying what they lost but didn’t because they were insured, a billion extra, Enda’s new chair / seat, it was falling from one scandal into another…
Have people forgotten all those things like Shortall etc etc…
@Joachin. Great memories indeed. I often sit on a bench with Indah and we have a good laugh about them. We really yucked it up over the young mother ‘crying bitter tears ‘. Indah nearly piddled himself on that one. Not a dry knicker in the house! Of course, I don’t exist – does Indah, really?
Apparently, people tell Enda their stories and it makes no difference to him or his polices….he just collects anecdotes for speeches with which he regales the upper crust with tales of the ‘little peeple’.
What a man still spouting horseshit the school he left was very lucky ,but that the bollix ended in Dail Eireann what a total disaster for the rest of us.
Hugh left out the one where he claimed some random punter rang him on his personal mobile phone to thank him about his wages increasing after the last budget. Or did one of those tall tales seem so outlandish Hugh and the blueshirt brigade decided to let that one go, you know, since the idea of a random man acquiring his phone number and ringing the Taoiseach on his mobile out of the blue seem a bridge too far?
My personal favourite though was the one where he justified his €3,500 a day salary. Now THAT is quite the story. Google ‘Enda Kenny 3500′.
“It is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a persons home” – Enda Kenny, 1994.
Now I understand circumstances change.
But note the word morally.
Does this point to a lack of morals in Enda?
Serious question here folks. I’ve been voting for almost 20 years now and I still don’t understand our system of transfers. My understanding is that if I don’t mark the box for a party’s candidate then they can’t get a transfer vote from me. I only ever mark the box in the priority that I would vote for them and I leave some empty. is this right?
Thanks Jarlaith. I was concerned my votes were going where I didn’t want them to. Unfortunately I’m one of those people that voted for Fine Gael and Labour in the last election so now I know my vote does count.
at last the chickens are coming home to toost? who will lead the goverement inoto the next election Mabe one of the mystery guys on the bench if there are any ???,,????
Oh please Seanachai Kenny, tell us the fairytale of the Great Uisce Eireann, how the princes tried to fool the plain folk and give their gold to dark Knights, how the water fell from the sky and turned into gold when the Ard Ri Kenny waved his magical stave, how the little people left their caves and discovered the power of the truth, how the evil Fianna Fein hid their bombs about their person and tried to destroy the kingdom. And then the King Kenny was gone and the Kingdom grieved, if only they’d listened to the great teacher.
Enda lives around the corner from the dail, he has no understanding of commuting and I would say he hasn’t had to use public transport in his life. If meeting people gives him such s buzz why won’t he face the public in an open Q and A? Listen to the people and debate their points. Otherwise he’s just sprouting a load of tripe, which isn’t washing. 30% support seems about right – 3 out of ten are doing very nicely thank you, but wait until the other 70% of us have our say.
In relation to story no.6 involving Enda’s encounter with the supporters of Richard Boyd-Barrett in Killiney, can the Dun Laoghaire deputy please clarify at next Dail sitting precisely what substances were inhaled by all under that tree?
These stories all serve to feed Kenny’s ego, and at the same time he expresses no genuine empathy for any of the people who feed him. Two typically sociopathic/narcissistic behaviour patterns, surprise, surprise.
The man with two pints is my favourite,says it all that he thinks there is something wrong with you if you can afford two pints but are against water charges!He is obviously deluded and his bribery budget seems to have fallen a bit flat so I guess he’ll be off around Dublin inner city with a flask,blankets and a team of DOB owned press photographers to create some more of these fantasist,sorry,I mean FANTASTIC ,stories
Yvonne, those meetings are highly choreographed.The likes of you and me would be ambushed by his gang of cheonies that are always nearby.There are many videos of people who try to speak out against him getting pushed,manhandled ,verbally abused ,jeered and treated like sh*t,free speech my elbow!
What’s your point with this story, are you trying to humanise Kenny?, the worst bit is him chatting with a homeless person,several weeks later another HOMELESS person was found dead within spitting distance of Dail Eireann. Since then several more have died and nothing has been done. Kenny and FG couldn’t care less about the vulnerable people of Ireland. Time for some balanced reporting, this is another piece of Propaganda I’ve read from this website.
Two things; imagine being homeless, down on your luck, perhaps cold and hungry and just when you thought things could not get any worse Enda comes and bores you for 20 minute . How unlucky can one person be and secondly, if Ends walks to work how does he meeting taxi and bus drivers?
A complete and total idiot no one believes in what he is saying All about Enda the has been self promotion and no one else Hopefully he will lose his seat
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