Alcohol health labelling 'will add over a third to costs’

The Government agreed earlier last week to suspend the rollout of alcohol warning labels for two years.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin was lobbied by business representative group Ibec to delay the introduction of alcohol warning labels for ‘at least’ four years due to tariff fears.

Ibec chief executive Danny McCoy warned the Fianna Fáil leader that the new requirements would lead to packaging and labelling costs increasing by “over one-third”.