drinking age

Should the drinking age be lowered? There have been calls for the drinking age to be reduced in Ireland. Cllr Shane O’Callaghan believes that reducing Ireland’s drinking age will help reduce the number of teens who are abusing alcohol. However, many parents feel like lowering the legal drinking age will only encourage teens to drink […]

3 years ago

She also suggested the introduction of “curfews”. Social Democrats councillor for Howth and Malahide, Joan Hopkins, has suggested raising the drinking age to 20 to combat anti-social behaviour in Ireland. Hopkins was speaking after a woman fell under a train on 1 April in an incident at Howth Junction DART Station which is currently being […]

5 years ago