ANTI-SMOKING campaigner Professor Luke Clancy yesterday told a conference that half of all young people starting to smoke today will eventually die due to cigarettes.

Publicans across the country today called on drinks suppliers to freeze the price of a pint.

“TODAY’S budget is crafty, it’s a cunning budget. It’s been designed to push the right buttons. It’s a budget pretending to say sorry we messed up but everything now is changed, we are a reformed group”.

By Eddie Cassidy

PUBLICANS are the biggest rip-off merchants in the country, according to the findings of a survey of various professions.

Publicans must be on their guard tonight to catch underage drinkers as more than 55,000 students celebrate their Junior Certificate results, it was warned.

A HOTEL was yesterday ordered to get rid of its beer garden, prompting fears that other hotels and pubs may be forced to abandon their outside smoking zones.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has appealed to off-licences not to stock controversial vodka sachets which hit the market yesterday.

Health Minister Micheál Martin appealed to off licences not to stock controversial vodka sachets which hit the Irish market today.

The Vintners' Federation of Ireland (VFI) is pleading with the Government for some form of relaxation of the smoking ban legislation and the 9pm watershed involving families, as reports from 6,000 members throughout the country confirm loss of business.

Rural pubs across the country are facing ruin unless a slump in alcohol sales is addressed, the Vintners Federation of Ireland claimed today.

PUBLICANS admit they are ripping off customers with exorbitant prices for soft drinks.