alcohol

Domestic consumption sank by 2 per cent as the US remained the sector’s largest market in the lead up to tariffs

Group has been more concerned with divesting assets in the past four years

‘If someone had told me that I’d be serving zero alcohol beer - I’d have put them in a straitjacket,’ says Dublin bar owner

Although younger people delay, once they drink they consume alcohol at above average rate

Cuomo’s paradox emphasises the need for more tailored messaging that separates prevention from survival goals

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Author of new Irish study says alcohol remains a ‘clear and present danger’ to public

Part 26: While maintaining my sobriety may not be a certainty, I can be certain that nothing or no one will ever make me act uncontrollably again

Further setback comes as struggling independent brewers grapple with ‘astronomical’ input cost increases

Ireland is no longer a high alcohol consumption country, by EU standards

An early morning start with Dublin City Council’s army of sweepers, power-washers and vacuum-cleaners

On current trends, number of new annual diagnoses will almost double by 2050

Irish Whiskey Association issues warning as EU confirms no carve out for spirits

Tell Me About It: I just feel so deflated, with nothing to look forward to any more

With alcohol labelling, we were on the verge of doing something as revolutionary as the smoking ban. Then we chickened out

Introduction of alcohol warning labels to be deferred for two years, Ministers to hear

Minister for Enterprise asked Minister for Health to pause plans for alcohol health warnings due to global economic uncertainty

The UCD historian was controversial in his day for his "revisionist" approach to established Irish narratives, and his personal life had its share of boozy misadventure, writes Stephen Collins.

‘I think some of us - looking back - might have been experts on the wrong side of the bar and learned that the hard way.’

For parents, this can be a nerve-racking time, ‘but you also have to let them experience things’

Ireland is the joint-fourth highest consumer of cocaine globally, and it’s primarily a youth problem

‘My drinking had always been too heavy. I had my first drink at 14,’ says Social Democrats TD

Part 25: When I leave an AA meeting, I feel bad about myself. Why can’t I connect with these people? What is wrong with me?

After tasting success in Nigeria already, Element Irish Whiskey is looking further afield in the populous continent

Brewers previously had to travel abroad to train, Minister says, on opening new Teagasc centre

The ginger-beer makers hit €500,000 in turnover last year in domestic trade, but they have an eye on international markets

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Some 90% of producers have cut back on production amid slowdown

Timeline ‘under consideration’ with eye on US tax impact on drinks industry

Ireland is to become world’s first country to bring in mandatory health labelling on alcohol products, although Paschal Donohoe has said this may need to be re-examined

Blackwater Distillery entered rescue process ‘weighed down by the burden of debt’

I cannot accept that mental health issues and neurodivergence are ‘overdiagnosed’

I hated my first taste of alcohol and wondered how grown-ups could drink this stuff. Yet we still go on to try it again and again

Tell Me About It: ‘My family tell me to go and make new friends, but it is not easy in my mid-30s’

Restrictions should apply to alcohol-free versions of drinks at sports events and near schools, Alcohol Action Ireland says

Two readers contact us over concerns about alcohol-free beer

Part 23: Prudence is the key to sobriety — it is important to remember the tough times

Despite my drinking habits moving into the moderate range, the issue of fatigue arose, days, weeks, months and years of feeling ‘a little bit tired’

Dr Muiris Houston: Implementing a labelling regime could help make people aware of the potential cancer risks of alcohol consumption

The debut novelist left her career in London behind to write fiction in west Cork, where she started to grapple with her demons