Terry Prone: Mopping up problems created by alcohol is not a job for Drinkaware

Drinkaware has launched a new programme for students despite the Taoiseach, the departments of Education and Health, and the HSE saying it shouldn't be in schools

Drinkaware’s plan was to educate children through programmes in schools about healthy, safe ingestion of booze.

I come from a drinks industry family. My grandfather drove a Guinness dray, and for a while led a more exciting life than a Guinness dray driver would normally expect to live. This was because he had a passing resemblance to Michael Collins.

The resemblance would cause the police to lift him off the dray and take him in for questioning, which can’t have been a productive experience for the cops of the day, firstly because he wasn’t Michael Collins and secondly because he was taciturn. You want expansive when you’re interrogating someone, not taciturn.