‘Future bleak’ if alcohol link to sport not tackled

Children have a “very bleak future” if the Government is unable to take on the vested interests in the alcohol and sports industries, the country’s largest representative body of community drug projects has said.

Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign issued the damning attack as the Government today publishes its action plan on alcohol, which has sidelined a key proposal from its own expert group to ban alcohol sponsorship of sport.

Activists met in Dublin yesterday to launch of a campaign to push the drugs issue on the Government’s agenda. Afterwards, representatives met drugs strategy minister Alex White.