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Straightforward Irish public health guidance — alcohol, vaccination, HSE advice, and the everyday health decisions that affect individuals and families.
Ireland doesn't do summers the way Spain does. But the UV index here regularly hits 7 or above between May and August, which is the threshold at which skin damage accumulates fast. Ask most site managers about their sun...
A chemical storage tank does not fail overnight. It fails over ten years while inspectors sign off on it, managers file the paperwork, and nobody asks why the paint around the base looks like that. The £350,000 fine...
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Ireland. Construction workers, groundskeepers, farmers, road crews and utilities staff are outside for eight hours a day, often for decades. The connection is not complicated,...
Silicosis is older than the Health and Safety Authority. Older than the state. Workers were dying from stone dust before anyone wrote a regulation about it. What makes 2026 different is that we are watching young men...
A worker died at a compost facility in Carbury, County Kildare. The company was prosecuted. The fine landed at €95,000. Everyone filed it under "incident closed" and moved on. That is the wrong response. The...
A worker develops a cough. Then wheeze. Then they stop coming in. Occupational asthma does not announce itself with a bang. Research out of Cardiff University has confirmed what occupational physicians have known for...
A diving instructor falsified their fitness-to-dive certificate, passed a pre-employment check nobody actually verified, and went on to work with students in open water. Nothing went wrong that day. It does not always...
One drink won't kill you. Ten thousand of them, spread over a decade, absolutely can. The body keeps a running tab, and it collects eventually. Ireland drinks. A lot. We rank consistently among the highest alcohol...
When a public health warning goes out in Ireland, most people assume someone pressed a big red button in a government building. The reality is slower, messier, and involves at least three different agencies who do not...
Asking for help with alcohol is the part nobody tells you how to do. The information exists, scattered across websites and waiting rooms and well-meaning advice. Here is all of it, in one place, without the lecture....
One in three men in Ireland will develop an alcohol-related health condition. One in six women. These aren't people drinking alone under a bridge. They're partners. Parents. The person sitting across the dinner table....
More than half the Irish population are what Alcohol Action Ireland calls "harmful drinkers." Drinking too much, too often, increasing the risk of accidents, disease, and mental health conditions. Seven...
Eleven litres a year That's how much pure alcohol the average Irish person over 15 consumes annually. The figure comes from Alcohol Action Ireland. Eleven litres. That works out to about 1,100 units, or roughly three...
Ireland has a reputation for drinking. Some of it earned, some of it tourist brochure nonsense. But behind the culture sits actual legislation, and it works differently than you might assume. The Intoxicating Liquor Act...
The numbers that should stop you Twenty-four percent of Year 6 pupils in Ireland admit to binge drinking on a weekly basis. That's according to University College Dublin. One in four. Not sipping wine at Christmas...
It's not the internet's fault Every generation gets a new scapegoat for youth behaviour. Video games. Social media. Advertising. TikTok. The current narrative says children's choices are shaped by screens and peers, and...