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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.

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

New research has revealed that drinking just one cup of regular black tea per day may help to protect against cardiovascular disease, thereby keeping the heart healthy. This is the first study to show that drinking black tea, depending on the dose, reduces both blood pressure and arterial stiffness, helping to maintain a person’s cardiovascular health. The research was conducted at the University of L’Aquila in Italy and supported by the Lipton Institute of Tea.

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.

A Claremorris man who was caught drink driving after a three week drinking session as he tried to cope with the loss of his business, was banned from driving for two years at Claremorris District Court this week. Edward Killeen of Kilbeg, Claremorris, pleaded guilty to the charge in court.

Nothing adds instant glamour to an occasion like cocktails. Unfortunately there is nothing instant about all the chopping, juicing, and blending that goes with making them. So if the thoughts of preparing a cocktail at home from scratch leaves you feeling a little shaken and stirred, well relax and sit back with the new bartender-inspired collection of ready-to-serve cocktails from the makers of Smirnoff vodka. Available in both mojito and cosmopolitan, both varieties are prepared using super premium ingredients to bar standards yet are perfect for enjoying at home.

Thanks to television shows and movies, cocktails have made a big revival in the past few years. The last big cocktail phase was during the fifties and sixties when every fashionable hotel had a cocktail bar with lots of starched collars, crisp white uniforms and bow ties. In 2009 the typical uniform for a cocktail barman seems to be black, although usually with the addition of a very flashy tie. The use of the word cocktail dates back to 1806 in New York so they have been around a long time, yet many have stood the test of time and have the same ingredients today as they had 100 years ago. A typical cocktail contains about 30-40 per cent high strength alcohol with the remainder being flavourings of one kind or another.

Tomorrow at 9pm The Dáil Bar on Cross Street/Middle Street will host an evening of summer fun in advance of the upcoming Smirnoff Mule Party Night.

One standard drink takes one hour to leave your system and there is no way to speed this up, so do the maths and don’t risk the morning after, is the advice from drinkaware.ie ahead of the August Bank Holiday Weekend.

New research suggests that drinking three cups of tea a day might have beneficial effects on breast cancer risk, in particular among young women.