THE number of subjects taken for the Junior Certificate should be examined as a possible way to reduce pressures leading students to drop out of school, a teachers’ leader has suggested.

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Punters across Ireland are drinking more than half a billion pints of milk a year, it has emerged.

Ireland’s reputation as a nation of drinkers took a knock today as it was revealed that alcohol consumption has fallen by almost 7% in five years.

The Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI) has urged its members to be especially vigilant over the St Patrick's Day festival to prevent underage people getting access to alcohol.

Education in schools and at home is key to any measures attempting to tackle alcohol problems in society, the drinks industry claimed today.

The Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI) has today published the findings of an opinion poll of public attitudes towards the problems of alcohol misuse.

The drinks industry agrees that reducing the level of alcohol-related harm in Ireland is “imperative”, according to Michael Patten, Chairman of the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI).

PUBLIC health doctors have called on the Government to face down the drinks industry in the same manner it took on the tobacco industry.

GUINNESS has blamed warm weather and fewer people going to bars for a fall-off in sales of the black stuff.

IRISH whiskey could soon gains access to India, the world’s largest whiskey market.

IRISH whiskey makers are trying to crack the world’s largest whiskey market in India with the help of the Irish Government.

GPs tonight hit out at a new code of practice restricting alcohol advertisements claiming it was a sop to the powerful drinks industry.

MICHAEL PATTEN, group corporate relations director for Diageo in Ireland, has been appointed chairman of the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland (DIGI).

The pigmeat factory at Roosky, Co Roscommon will not be rebuilt.

PUBLIC relations lobbyists will not be obliged to make it publicly known whose interests they are representing under a new code of conduct for their industry.

Fire-fighters from three counties are still at the scene of a major fire at a meat plant in Co Roscommon.

Milk supplies to Dublin went ahead as normal this morning as farmers decided not to renew their blockade of Glanbia distribution plants.