Publicans have urged Health Minister Leo Varadkar to “plough on” with plans to introduce minimum pricing on alcohol following a European Court of Justice ruling appeared to make the regulations harder to implement.

THE owner of South’s bar in Limerick last night offered to act as peace broker between Defence Minister Willie O’Dea and Shannon lobbyists John Fahey and Geraldine Morrissey following a verbal clash last Saturday over the minister’s absence from the recent Dáil debate on Shannon.