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IT’S JUST OVER a month old, but the Diageo-backed ‘responsible drinking’ group ‘Stop Out-Of-Control Drinking’ has been hit with another setback.
Psychologist Krystian Fikert of the MyMind mental health centre has stepped down as a member of the board.
“We are very grateful to Krystian for his valued contribution to the campaign over several months,” a statement from Stop Out-Of-Control Drinking said tonight.
“Our goal is to make out-of-control drinking socially unacceptable in our society.
“It is a big task and increasingly requires a lot of time over and above our members’ professional commitments.
“As a result our voluntary board will continue to change and adapt to peoples’ circumstances and the needs of the campaign.”
A statement from MyMind said its aim in 2015 was to “focus on our mission to increase availability of quick and affordable mental wellbeing services”.
“As such, and due to resource restraints within our organisation, it is no longer possible for MyMind to sit on the board of the Stop Out of Control Drinking campaign.
“We wish campaign members the very best in their endeavours.”
Second board member
GP and radio presenter Dr Ciara Kelly stepped down from the board earlier this month.
The group has also been criticised for its ties to Diageo in an open letter signed by the likes of comedian Des Bishop, folk singer Christy Moore and TD Róisín Shortall.
Responding to that criticism earlier this month, a spokesperson for Stop Out-of-Control Drinking group said, “Fergus Finlay (chairman of the group) has said that he respects everyone’s opinion on it but it is very premature to judge”.
He went to say:
While Diageo provides the money, they don’t control the board. There are no shares allocated on the board.
The drinks company has provided substantial financial backing for the campaign. However, none of the group’s board members receive a salary.
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The Daily Mail says vote Farage or we surrender our Brexit freedoms.What freedoms?
@Willie Marty: The freedom to have less places you can live, endless tedious form filling, loss of business and added expense on nearly all goods? They showed Johnny Foreigner though!
@Willie Marty: freedom not to have freedom to travel or use iconic blue passports printed in France. Even the Monster Raving Loony Party has more credibility at this stage.
Hopefully the Tories are given an unmerciful kicking at the ballot box. Less than 100 seats
Who cares? They are all as terrible as each other, except Count Binhead
Express, Star, and Mirror all part of the same Reach group. Just telling their respective markets what they want to hear.
Half of the people here didn’t care to vote, as a result we have the same clowns, and a government with a lot more confidence to continue screwing us without impunity. So never mind UK elections
@Dominic Leleu: You can’t assume that the half who didn’t vote would have voted differently.
@Dominic Leleu: False. We have the same clowns in government here because those clowns tried to be in government. Parties like Labour, SD, PBP and SF etc are all great at screaming from the side lines. But when it comes to general elections and the chance to govern they don’t run enough candidates to win and lead a government. Same over the water in the UK only 2 parties will run enough candidates in today’s general to form a government. Can’t vote for change when no other party wants to lead that change can we?
I don’t care who you vote for,that’s your business , but I do care of you don’t vote
@Meatball Martin: because it’s important to have your say it might or might not , but at least you know
@Meatball Martin: Brexit wasn’t our election but it mattered to us. All of these current elections the World over matter to everyone.
@Meatball Martin: We live in a world of interconnected trade, finance and commerce.
Yes, these elections DO impact us and you’re incredibly short sighted to not understand that.
@Meatball Martin: Yeah! Because the years of inward looking nationalistic isolationism of the De’Velara era worked out great for us.
@Meatball Martin: He kept us in poverty and servitude.
@Meatball Martin: And so that trumps poverty and servitude – oh and let’s not forget the power he gave to the Catholic Church and how they abused that power – and thousands of children!
So this is what an independent, unbiased, balanced media looks like?.
@Peter 1: You think this is new behaviour from the UK Tabloids? Express, Telegraph, Daily Mail have always been Tory.
The Sun claimed they were responsible for Kinnock’s loss back in 1992.
None of this is new for the UK tabloid papers.
@Peter 1: Why do you think independent media should be unbiased? State media is supposed to be unbiased because it’s not independent.
@Tricia G28: As they were for the orchestrated smear campaign against Corbyn last election.. probably the most vicious one I can recall. They’re all just propaganda rags serving their paymaster.
I know it’s highly unlikely, but I would laugh if the lib Dems won a majority.
I would like to Farage get a good amount of votes. He has the most character out of the leaders and deserves a shot.
@Sean Money: where specifically on his body does he deserve a shot?
@mani mus: Oooh!! I know, I know!!
@mani mus: oooh good one! But he does not deserve to be shot now come on.
@Sean Money: in the words of the late great Winston Wolfe
‘Just becase you are a character doesn’t mean you have character’
Labour will lose a lot of votes in Liverpool. Madness by the Labour leader
@Shaun Gallagher: they still wont vote tories
If Irish papers done the same. Most if not all would print “vote PBP”.
@Laois Weather: LOL.. you clearly haven’t a clue about the political leanings and editorial policies of the national Irish papers. Maybe read some more and stop making things up..
@Laois Weather: The Irish papers are all brit owned!
More interested in the. JAY THE RIDDELL OF THE ROLEX .
@Karen Marten: I wouldn’t bother, it’ll be some nonsense conspiracy theory because they’re desperate to keep the story going.
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