Code to police school fizzy drinks sales

Enda Kenny is banking on the fizzy drinks industry to operate a code of conduct in their sales through vending machines to schools.

The Taoiseach said yesterday he had personally spoken to heads of drinks companies, stating: “Many of them have moved to a point where they have sugar-free content.”

Mr Kenny was responding at the opening of a science building in IT Sligo to criticism by obesity experts of Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan for refusing to ban fizzy drinks machines in second-level schools.