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THE FIRST SIX months of 2014 saw a significant rise in the number of women and young people being admitted to alcohol addiction treatment services.
That’s according to the addiction service Aiséirí in its annual report launched today.
It says that if this continues – it could be facing a 70% increase in the number of admissions for young people this year compared to last and a 64% increase in admissions for adult women.
Over the full year of 2013, 119 admissions were made to Aiséirí‘s specialist adolescent centre. However, by June this year, there had already been 101 admissions.
One in three of these young people were aged between 15 and 17.
In 2013, 30% of the adult admissions at Aiséirí were women but by June 2014, this was 43% in one centre.
‘Tragic consequences’
CEO of Aiséirí, Paul Conlon, urged the government not to reduce excise duty on alcohol.
Alcohol is the primary drug of addiction for over 50% of admissions to all Aiséirí centres. In the adult centres it can be as high as 78%. Conlon said:
If the price of alcohol goes down, the risk of alcohol harm and addiction goes up, particularly for vulnerable groups like young people and women.
“It would be irresponsible of the government to introduce anything that would make alcohol cheaper or more accessible.
We are seeing the tragic consequences of Ireland’s drink love-in and it is far from being ‘great craic’ for many individuals and families.
“Lowering the price of alcohol by reducing excise, particularly in supermarkets and the off-trade, would greatly increase the risk of alcohol harm and addiction for vulnerable groups in particular young people, who generally have less money and are more likely to binge drink, and women, who are more likely to purchase alcohol at the supermarket.”
Aiséirí operates across four centres in the Southeast – Aiséirí Aislinn in Kilkenny, the country’s only dedicated adolescent addiction centre, as well as Aiséirí adult centres in Wexford, Tipperary and Waterford.
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Does nobody value cheap flights? Why such snobbery over Ryanair? It does exactly what it says on the tin. I, for one, recall paying £379 to Aer Lingus in the seventies to fly one way to London from Dublin with no smiling air hostesses either as I well recall. I also remember the awful boat journeys between Holyhead and Dun Laoighre and the train journey to Euston for three times what you’d get a return Ryanair flight for now! Anyone who criticises Ryanair either wasn’t around in the bad old days or has a very short memory…
No they just cant help but put down the most successful airline in Europe, typical Irish attitude to slate and put down anything successful in Ireland by an Irish person.
Fair comment John.
My concern, would Ryanair consider moving HQ from Dublin if they had an interest in Stansted. This would remove one obstacle to buying Aer Lingus if technically they were a British airline.
They recently issued a warning regarding Irelands current corporate tax rate.
2009 Six of us being charged €550 each to fly from Krakow to Dublin by Ryanair, and you think that’s cheap? What would you call expensive?
Ryan air will switch off the lights and sell the public torches as they enter the terminal
And he’ll either rent out the seats for people to sit or, or make them bring their own, make them bring their own food, and charge them for rubbish collection.
To be fair I doubt they could do anything to ruin Stansted that hasn’t been done already.
Agreed, stanstead is one of the nastiest modern built airports iv ever experienced! I mean Heathrow is bad but stanstead is like a cow shed with windows!
I agree with you Tony, but it is one airport that i never really had problems with. Your in and out really quick. The Stansted express always has problems.
Ryanair’s trademark contempt for customer service makes the experience of travelling through Stansted both nasty and chaotic. They have already ruined the airport.
He should be running the country , your ticket is a fraction of what you paid in the 80′s ,he’s brought efficiencies punctuality cost savings value for money huge profits ( nothing the unions have ever done) new routes 1000′s of jobs and still pays all his taxes in Ireland .lastly it’s an irish success story nnWhy the whining ???
couldn’t agree more!
They do have form challenging monopolies – think Aer Lingus in the 1980s.
Plus they would only be part of a consortium and have large cash reserves built up so might as well invest them.
Hopefully there’ll be greater competition between Irish airports soon.
No flies on O’leary and if there were they would be paying rent.
He has a mush you’d love to take a penalty with.
I read an article once in which Michael O Leary said he would have people go straight from the car park onto the planes.
Obviously thats not going to happen but that is the lines in which he thinks.
Taking out all the waiting around… It sounds great! You could arrive 15 minutes before your flight rather than two hours!
Actually I think his thinking would be the opposite. If you get out of the car and on to the plane where is he going to make money on the airport? More like keep you waiting to check in for an hour or two and in the mean while why not avail of the over priced facilities. That’s the game plan that he would be looking at.
I’d reckon ryanairs aim would be to reduce their costs from the airport, and thus pass on reduction to passengers, they want bums on seats. Having a say in how stanstead operates the more say the better really, if they don’t compete with other airports they will fail so I couldn’t see this as anything but positive for customers. London has plenty of airports and they can compete. As said earlier stansted isn’t a shining light as it stands. BAA obviously prefer Gatwick (maybe that has been their plan ironically)
They sold Gatwick back in 2009. They sold it for £1.5 billion to an Investment group than control London city airport.
Seems to make perfect sense to me. Having a major airline as a shareholder (and presumably a board member) would surely help focus the airport’s efforts on efficiency etc. I think its typical scaremongering, all these comments about MO’L charging to use seats….
Why the whining he should be running the country- he’s brought value for money cost savings punctuality new destinations ( they are irish ) and he pays all his taxes in Ireland . nnWhat do people want ? He gets you to your destination what more do you want for €20 including tax nIf ye can’t go to Spain for a week with cabin baggage fair play to them for charging you extra
went to England recently. My suitcase was 14.4kg going over and mysteriously 16.6kg coming back. The only difference in my bag was a bottle of shampoo. Must have been a 2.2.kg bottle.
What airports do they control???? Comfort ? What do you want ,they bring you to your destination cheaper than anyone else. Convenience? They want to make travelling more convenient bag less check in print your own boarding pass- they are changing how we travel? Service? Ye want a coffee €2:50 ye don’t want one then don’t pay for it , they are the biggest airline in Europe and don’t get me started on the ferries Jesus!!!!!
You mean Irish ‘Latvian’ Ferries??
One of Stansted’s biggest problems is transport, especially if you are coming from North or West London.
If Ryanair take it over, I probably won’t use it again. Their facilities are appalling in any airport they control. They don’t care about comfort, convenience or service. The day will come when they start paying the price for that in lower numbers as people switch to other airlines and ferries.
only for ryanain stanstid would not exist s much ad i heat flying with them they made that airport when they left luton
I read that in my head like the policeman in ‘allo ‘allo
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