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We all know that social networking online is on the rise, due to the fact that the divorce rate is on the increase here in Ireland. People are finding themselves single again and back on the social scene.

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.

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.

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.

A fantastic line up is promised for this year’s annual Irish Entertainment Awards, which take place on October 19 2009 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone.