Bishops: Ban drink firms’ sponsorship of sport

IT’S time to show the red card to drinks companies’ sponsorship of sporting events, according to Catholic bishops.

And the Church leaders on both sides of the border have also called for tougher measures to stamp out drink driving and drug abuse.

It is a fallacy to assert that social life in Ireland happens only in conjunction with alcohol consumption, Bishop Éamonn Walsh told a cross-border seminar on the misuse of alcohol and the scourge of illicit drugs.