I will celebrate an immediate alcohol sponsor ban, but I won’t drink to it

WE HAVE seen the line between what’s right and wrong, what’s good and bad.

If you, the Government, go the wrong side of the line, we will know you are wrong and bad.

Because there is no moral argument against ending the sponsorship of sports and cultural events by drinks companies. That’s what the steering group on the national substance misuse strategy recommends. That’s what junior minister Roisin Shortall says she wants — but not until 2016.