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FINE GAEL MEP and former GAA President Seán Kelly has claimed that the banning of alcohol sponsorship of major sporting events is based on opinion rather than evidence.
He told RTÉ Radio this morning that the effects of such a ban could be negative in the long term.
Kelly was responding to a Sunday Times report at the weekend that the government is to hear revised proposals from the junior health minister Alex White which will ban alcohol sponsorship of sporting events from 2020, however arts and cultural events will be excluded.
Speaking to Morning Ireland, Kelly claimed that there had been a 17 per cent increase in alcohol abuse among young people in France where a ban on alcohol sponsorship of sport was introduced in the 90s.
“The effects could be negative in the long-term,” Kelly said while insisting that many of the measures proposed, including minimum pricing of alcohol, are good ideas.
But he cautioned on the sports ban, saying: “It might not make any difference to the problem which we are trying to deal with.
“It would curtail the ability of sports to promote their sport at grassroots level and that would have negative effect on the health of young people and the enjoyment etcetera.”
Kelly said there was “no scientific evidence that it’s going to have any effect whatsoever” and said that the government should look to replace the sponsorship of sport by alcohol companies in a “proportionate manner” if the measure is to be introduced.
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well , i hate to say it but how big would our collective blinkers be if it wasn’t for anon?
I love how easily people seem to blindly accept these faceless “organisations” as the saviours of “free speech”
How exactly does anonymous brand of censorship differ to SOPA censorship.
Ever Wonder who is really behind Anon & Wikileaks ?
Trust no one
an apt name
Don’t talk about what you don’t know.
In response to an “apparent” cyber attack on interpol they arrested 25 people they suspected… …of using computers? of having an IT degree? of saying something out of line on the journal.ie forums? Its all so paper thin it could be a plot line from CSI! And yet interpols exec direc thinks it was a successful crack down on cyber crime. What a nice little work of fiction we are being force fed.
“i fought the law and the law won!” Bobby Fuller
nothing but respect for anonymous, at the very least they have an excellent sense of humour. they will never be stopped
I thought these guys all used IP address blockers, etc. How good are they if they get caught so easily?
Who said it was easy? They are known to use zombie machines etc but the folks chasing them can be just as good, and obviously are.
Or how good are they that the managed to hack INTERPOL.
Comitting crime is easy. Evading capture is the hard part.
I’m not an IT head, but from all I’ve read hacking is as easy as picking a car lock…something I also have no skill or training in.
@Jason I doubt they hacked anyone, I’m assuming it was another DDoS attack like all the others.
These ‘cyber-attackers’ are just fools running LOIC pointed at an IP address. Hardly hackers.
Script Kids? Yeah, they make up most of Anonymous.
Which is a shame really, considering that they don’t quite understand what they are getting themselves into.
LulzSec & Anon and many other groups have dozens of guides on how to ghost yourself online. If the kids don’t want to read, who cares? I certainly don’t.
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