Parents urged to protect children from alcohol abuse

PARENTS were yesterday urged to protect their children from the horrors of alcohol abuse.

While a bishop has said that parents could do much to make their children aware of the dangers. “They need to talk to their children about the danger of abuse of alcohol, to alert their children to the power of advertisements and the pressure that will inevitably come from their peers,” Bishop Bill Murphy of Kerry said.

The Killarney Drugs Liaison Committee has issued a leaflet containing graphic illustrations showing young people who are pregnant, smeared in vomit, beaten and bruised as a result of drink abuse.