Policy failure

THE newspapers are awash with stories of people abusing alcohol and the numbers presenting at hospitals as a result of alcohol-related incidents, etc.

Policy failure
Mon, 02 Jan, 2006 - 00:00

Yet Micheál Martin has rescinded the Groceries Order which now permits supermarkets, off-licences, forecourts and corner shops to sell alcohol at below-cost prices.

Does anyone see the connection here?

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