A STUDY found that alcohol levels in 100 people hospitalised in a heavily intoxicated state, all of whom survived, were far greater than those found in an Englishman who died after a night of drinking in a Co Tipperary hotel.

A COCKTAIL of spirits which more than half filled a pint glass was served by hotel staff to a resident who had been drinking heavily for more than four hours, Nenagh Circuit Court was told.

A civil engineer who died from acute alcohol poisoning after downing a cocktail of shots had challenged friends to drinks races on nights before, a court was told.

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HAVING Bertie Ahern sitting at the counter drinking Bass or having the Taoiseach’s constituency office across the road from his pub, didn’t deter Thomas Kennedy from keeping more than €1 million salted away from the taxman’s greedy grasp.

KILDARE COUNTY will run special bus services to Belfield tonight for spectators wanting to see their historic first match in the FAI Carlsberg Cup against UCD (7.45pm).