Press Releases21 Jan 05

Press Invitation and Photocall - "Beware Booze Culture"

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA IN IRELAND IS THE HIGHEST IN THE EU

ONE IN FIVE CASES OF EMERGENCY ADMISSIONS INTO IRISH HOSPITALS ARE ALCOHOL RELATED.

The Church of Ireland is to launch

?Alcohol in the Life of Young People?

in Church House, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6

on TUESDAY, 25 JANUARY, 2005 at 3pm.

Archbishop Robin Eames will launch this report by the church?s Social Justice and Theological Panel, which is part of the Church in Society Committee.

?This is not age preaching to youth?, says Dean Gordon Wynne, Panel Chairman and Dean of Leighlin, Diocese of Cashel and Ossory. ?Alcohol is an issue that needs to be brought into the open?.

Rt Revd Michael Jackson, Bishop of Clogher, is chairman of the Church in Society Committee.