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Gargle Nation: Amy Winehouse dies. Is the stigma about alcoholism partly to blame?
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Booz in the Nooz. Friday, 29 July 2011. Amy Winehouse dies. Is the stigma about alcoholism partly to blame? Today's verdict (26th October) on Amy Winehouse's death was shocking, but few had expected the post-mortem to tell them anything that they didn’t already know. Recording a verdict of misadventure, St Pancras Coroner Suzanne Greenway said. Dad Mitch and Amy Winehouse at the 2008 Grammy Awards. And some trite stuff has been written. Freeman warned journalists not to talk of 'inevitable death' and...
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Gargle Nation: Women
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Booz in the Nooz. Women and Alcohol in Ireland: Internationl Women's Day March 8th 2011. A social analysis of the issues raised is in Sarah Carey's GUBU blog. We drink too much and its time to get over it'. Pity that the Programme for Governement. Published this same week contains no specific recommendations for alcohol treatment or for addressing the issue of women and alcohol. Any ideas out there, please feel free to post or comment. The full Alcohol Action article can be viewed here. Re drinking to ha...
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Gargle Nation: Booz in the Nooz
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Booz in the Nooz. Booz in the Nooz. Off the booze and on the ball" anti-booze campaign. The Gaelic Athletic Association has come out with a strong intiative to tackle the problem of drinking, following on from a Trinity college study. Which showed that amongst sports-people in Ireland "over 90% of players were current drinkers and almost one third (31%) reported drinking over the recommended limit of 21 standard drinks per week.". The new initative asks all players to give up booze for January. Caused qu...
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Gargle Nation: The best facts money can buy. Alcohol, evidence and Matt Cooper
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Booz in the Nooz. Sunday, 5 February 2012. The best facts money can buy. Alcohol, evidence and Matt Cooper. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones". 65279;"The print media has to be careful in how it uses off-the-record, or unattributed sources" writes journalist Matt Cooper. These were just her personal opinions. "She. That we drink too much alcohol in this country" he writes, and that the costs to society are just "decisions by individuals". Irish alco...
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Gargle Nation: Why Mayor Bloomberg and Jessie J are right: the business and reputational cost of alcohol to Ireland
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Booz in the Nooz. Tuesday, 19 April 2011. Why Mayor Bloomberg and Jessie J are right: the business and reputational cost of alcohol to Ireland. The Examiner today reports. Taoiseach Enda Kenny's trip to the UK as an attempt to restore what the new president of the American Chamber of Commerce. Called in January Ireland's "big job in restoring its tarnished reputation". "Ireland Inc has a significant credibility deficit that we must resolve before we can expect any real recovery" says the Examiner. Who to...
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Gargle Nation: Suicide
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Booz in the Nooz. What are the suicide figures for Ireland? Suicide is an increasing tragedy in Ireland. The official statistics show. That there were 527 suicides in the Republic in 2009, a 24 per cent increase year on year. But another 200 deaths that year were of an undetermined nature. It is believed that the true suicide figure for 2009 was actually between 600 and 700 and of those 80% were men. Candle-lit vigil for turn the Tide on Suicide, Dublin. Tragically 2011 is predicted to be the worst year ...
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Gargle Nation: December 2011
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Booz in the Nooz. Thursday, 15 December 2011. Alcohol kills at least one person in Ireland every seven hours. Reporting on events in India The Irish Times has heard. 15th December) brings it home. "Alcohol kills at least one person in Ireland every seven hours". That's over 1,250 per year according to Dr. Declan Bedford, director of public health in the north east, reporting to an oireachtas committee. Most of these harms occur not in alcoholics or people with alcohol dependence but rather among regular ...
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Gargle Nation: June 2014
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Booz in the Nooz. No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to this open discussion of alcohol in Ireland and the problems it's causing. Check out the. Booz in the Nooz. Tabs for up to date info. Damo and Ivor Give it a Lash. Steve Cummins tells a joke. The Texan and the Irishman gag. Stand up comedy from Dr Farren of St. Pats. Talking about alcohol harm. Drinkaware.ie praised at European Health Forum: satire dies again. Suicide, murder and alcohol: Minister ...
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Gargle Nation: Facts
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Booz in the Nooz. Overview of Alcohol-related harm facts and statistics. Ireland has a real and growing problem with alcohol. The European Commission Attitudes Towards Alcohol report published in 2007. The World Health Organisation. Is clearly weakly enforced. A report by the Health Research Board. In 2009 concludes that:. People in Ireland engage in drinking patterns that are excessive and problematic, with risky drinking now the norm for a substantial proportion of people'. The report also notes that:.
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Gargle Nation: Cancer
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Booz in the Nooz. There is an almost uncontested link between alcohol consumption and cancer, recognised by the World Cancer Research Fund, and now confirmed in further research published in the British Medical Journal (April 2011), and a recent Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona. Study linking alcohol consumption drinking to stomach cancer in particular. The research links alcohol consumption to many types of cancer. The World Cancer Research Fund 2007 report into diet and cancer. Many studies o...
