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New figures on alcohol abuse by young people should “scare the hell out of any parent” as they reveal the “serious damage” to health underage drinking is causing.

Measures tackling underage drinking, be they legal or social, must be taken seriously and supported according to Labour city councillor Niall McNelis.

Galway Pioneers are spearheading a major drive to get young people to change their attitudes to drink amid growing concern over the level of alcohol consumption among this group.

A strategy group set up to prevent and reduce alcohol related harm is calling for a range of alcohol treatment and support services to be introduced.

The Western Region Drug and Alcohol awareness week which runs from November 12 to 16 aims to increase awareness of drug and alcohol related issues and highlight the supports that are available.

The licensee of a bar in Roundfort, where a number of patrons were found on the premises at 4.15am, was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

Information from an online survey being conducted locally will help develop a five year strategy to reduce alcohol related harm in the city.

The current licensee of the TF Royal Hotel and Theatre, Pat Jennings, who is nominee of Diorama Ltd—of which he is also a director—has objected to an ad interim transfer of the licence to the receiver. The TF Royal Hotel and Theatre and the Harlequin Hotel in Castlebar went into receivership on May 25 2012.

There is no doubt about the role that the consumption of alcohol plays in the economy of this city. No city could earn the monicker of being a party city, a city that never sleeps, without acknowledging the role that drink plays in the creation of this perception. Just a cursory search of the world Galway in Twitter reveals the number of exchanges hourly that praise Galway for being a place where time gets lost, where today ends and tomorrow begins, inevitably lost in a haze of alcohol and music.

Fine Gael Mayo TD, John O’Mahony, has said that the report on alcohol and drug misuse published by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, “provides a blueprint on how we can tackle our national drink problem”.