Alcohol action plan fails to satisfy

The long-awaited alcohol action plan was finally unveiled yesterday and came with a distinct lack of fizz, writes Cormac O’Keeffe

THE health minister’s car analogy seemed to register with many of those attending yesterday’s launch of the long-awaited, and much-troubled, Government alcohol action plan.

What was better, Dr James Reilly asked: To have a Rolls Royce of a plan that would sit pretty in the showroom, or a Ford that would get you on the road?