Supermarkets must accept cheap alcohol fallout

SUPERMARKETS cannot accept money from the alcohol trade without accepting the responsibility for the heartbreak cheap alcohol brings.

That was the message yesterday from the father of a 21-year-old man who took his own life after a drink-fuelled night out in Mayo last March.

In a statement to the Oireachtas Committee on Health, John Higgins, from Ballina, said that alcohol was being sold at “pocket money prices” and that it played a “very large part” in the death of his son, David.