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Maybe it’s just that I’m getting older, but there seem to be a lot of young ones out drinking these days.

Anyone who logged on to the discussion board on www.castlebar.ie this week will have seen a lengthy discussion on events in Castlebar last Friday night surrounding a Junior Cert disco, when hundreds of teenagers from across the region converged on Castlebar. Anyone who was around the town that night couldn’t fail to notice the large numbers that were out and about, some of them were very drunk, but plenty more were as sober as the day they were born.

The results of the Galway health and well-being survey has highlighted that despite high levels of binge drinking Galway citizens rate their general health very well.

Having read the personal accounts of young people who have recovered from addiction at the Aislinn Centre, it would break the hardest of hearts to think that the lack of funding might jeopardise the programmes that they provide.

Underage drinking and the anti-social behaviour attached to it is a direct result of under-cost selling of alcohol in supermarkets.