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Ireland praised for responsible drinking initiative

Check out last year’s finalists from the Dare2BDrinkAware.ie, a film and multimedia competition that has been praised at an EU forum in Brussels today.

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A MULTIMEDIA AND film project launched by DrinkAware.ie in 2007 has been praised at European level for promoting the responsible use of alcohol amongst third-level students.

The Dare2BDrinkAware campaign was highlighted as a model of best practice at the European Alcohol and Health Forum in Brussels today.

The campaign involves a multimedia and film project targeted at Ireland’s college students. Participants are asked to submit short films or multimedia projects that focus on responsible drinking.

The 2012 competition is now open and centres on the theme of “drinking in the home environment”. The winners are presented with cash prizes and could have their videos screened in public.

Last year, Ciara Kennedy’s winning reality TV-style mockumentary shows some Irish ladies getting ready for a night on the tiles (literally):



The Ignorant Truth is a clever take on two friends – one drunk and one sober – getting a taxi home:



This film was shot with an aim to stop students playing competitive drinking games:


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Comments (2 Comments)

  • Eye opening, but I imagine we’ve all seen worse. I don’t drink, I don’t like what it does to people but that doesn’t mean some peole can’t drink in moderation and sensibly. A friend in work told me a while ago how as she left a well known nightclub she saw a girl call her obviously drunk friend to hurry up, her friend was sitting on a bin getting… well… shagged by a lad. My friend was very worried at this thinking what she was seeing was a rape, but the girl opened one eye, raised a bottle to her mouth and slurred to her mate to hang on she’d be there in a second. This was outside a well known nightclub with plenty of people passing by. Who’d believe that, but worse probably happens?
    An A&E nurse once told me they get several girls every weekend claiming their drinks are spiked and must check each one, I was stunned, I said I have a young daughter and thought these things were rare I had no idea they were so common. It was politely pointed out to me that while they claim their drinks are spiked and each girls bloods are checked the nurse had yet to see one genuine case, they all had too much drink taken but preferred to look for another explanation, although she did say she knew of it happening elsewhere.

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  • right so,the sober girl in one vid is the wasted girl in the other vid yeah? are you aware regardless of your protestations,you do the exact same thing? food for thought,and i’m 43!

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