Both 16, the Coláiste Choilm students claimed the top prize with their project: A statistical investigation into the prevalence of gender stereotyping in 5-7 year olds and the development of an initiative to combat gender bias.

“Like all the factories down through the years, Fords,Dunlops, they’ve all done the same thing. You know, just a wipe of the pen. “It’s just not going to work. We can do it cheaper somewhere else”.”

It is 30 years since Sarsfields claimed their one and only Cork senior camogie championship title.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has made an early case for decriminalising the possession of drugs just as a high-level expert group is tasked with examining the issue.

Just how vulnerable homeless people are is highlighted in a report which found the average age of death among those living on the streets is 42 years.

Having whittled down the entries for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from 2,048 to 550, judges will find it difficult to crown the overall winner as the standard is very high.

Alcohol Action Ireland has said the next government will have to prioritise tackling Ireland’s relationship with alcohol, after a new report revealed the extent of drinking among teenagers.

Alcohol Action Ireland has called on the Government to prioritise the health of children and not to pass the alcohol industry’s self-regulatory codes into law.

Medical and community leaders who were members of an official alcohol strategy group have slammed Government moves to drop plans to ban alcohol sponsorship of sporting events.

Having whittled down the entries for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition from 2,077 to 550 last October, the judges will crown an overall winner this evening — which won’t be easy because the standard is up across the board, writes Evelyn Ring.

The HSE has confirmed a new drug to treat alcoholism will be made available through the medical card and drugs payments schemes.

We the Board of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, Ireland’s leading penal reform NGO, write to express our serious and collective concern in respect to s.55 Charities Act 2009.

More than half of Irish drinkers — almost 1.4m people — consume alcohol in a "harmful" manner, yet 98% believe they are "light or moderate drinkers".

Most drinkers tend to see alcohol problems as really someone else’s, unless, maybe, they are victims of another person’s actions.

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The Government has shelved proposals to impose a “social responsibility levy” on the alcohol industry, which was supposed to help fund the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse.

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Senior health and community figures are calling on the Government to end the “drift” on its long-promised alcohol policy when a key Cabinet group meets today.

With four players — Conor O’Sullivan, Daniel Kearney, Cian McCarthy and Michael Cussen — likely to be in Sunday’s matchday panel, Sarsfields boast the strongest representation in the Cork senior hurling squad.

An Oireachtas Committee has opposed plans to ban alcohol sponsorship at sporting events.

More needs to be done to tackle the effects of alcohol abuse on drinkers and their families, according to the Clondalkin Drug Task Force.

Health Minister James Reilly said the “sky won’t fall in” if alcohol sports sponsorship is phased out under the Government’s faltering alcohol action plan.

Two mothers who suffered severe drug-induced reactions were last night out of danger and talking with their families.

Most girls will feel a sense of dread on learning their darling brother has drawn a picture of them — and then delighted in showing it off in public.

Two days ago, a beaming Davy Russell clambered onto the podium in the winners’ enclosure at Punchestown and had his snap taken as he pretended to take a great, big glug out of the oversized tankard that comes with victory in the Gold Cup.

“Habitual” drinkers, not alcoholics, account for most people with alcohol-related liver disease.

Alcohol sponsorship of sport will be seen as a crazy idea in 15 years, a public health specialist has warned today.

Ireland operates as a “conveyor belt” for the alcohol industry with 60,000 children starting to drink every single year, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

The president of the Irish Medical Organisation has admitted he should have done more to find out about the contract terms of the union’s former chief executive which left him with a pension entitlement of up to €25m.

Children are the “unfortunate collateral damage” of sports sponsorship by the drink industry, a seminar on alcohol has heard.

It’s hard writing about this game. Having watched Thurles Sarsfields up close from my role with Kilmallock, we’ve tried to move on from the defeat.

After enduring a famine between 1957 and 2008, Sarsfields are more than happy to embrace the feast they are currently experiencing with yesterday’s win following the victories of 2008 and ’10.

This showpiece of Cork senior hurling struggled to come to life as a contest in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Alcohol is ranked as the fourth most harmful drug behind heroin, crack cocaine, and crystal meth, but ahead of cocaine, nicotine, ecstasy, and cannabis.

The Cabinet has put the much-anticipated action plan on alcohol back until September, the Irish Examiner understands.

THE abuse of legal tranquillisers, already a major problem in the community, is now a cause of concern in prisons.

Pill-popping prisoners are costing the State €3m a year — or almost €700 for every inmate in the system.

A minister has said it was “not practical in the foreseeable future” to ban sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry.