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Saturday 26 September 2020
A sugar tax is expected to be brought in next year.
Bon app the teeth.
Romance isn’t dead.
The move is aimed at bringing the company more in line with a new healthy image.
A leading cardiologist says that’s not true at all.
Enterprise Ireland has decided to organise a visit to the country next year.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
Warning to governments: Children’s shoes should be avoided at all costs.
The city had gone to court seeking a reversal of an earlier decision to block the ban, which was the controversial brainchild of former mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The average mark up for publicans is 98 per cent on a pint of lager but it’s 407 per cent on a 200ml bottle of soft drinks.
You can actually get your red lemonade fix to go. YES.
A new study shows that drinking one can of a sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can increase the risk of diabetes by a fifth.
The ban had been expected and has been welcomed by the city’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Senator Catherine Noone says she carried out a price survey in more than 100 Dublin pubs and found that customers were being charged more per litre for water and soft drinks than for beer and stout.
Ireland has one of the highest per capita soft drinks consumption in the western world – we drink an average of at least one 330ml can of fizzy drink a day.
The tax on sugar and artificial sweeteners will add around 2c to the price of a can. The levy will be used to combat obesity.
AFTER A COLD week, another frosty few days are ahead of us.
Temperatures are set to drop to as low as -2 degrees tonight, according to Met Éireann.
Conditions will be dry and clear, but there will be widespread frost.
So, as the autumn weather is most certainly upon us, we want to know: Have you turned the heating on this week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Sunshine and patchy clouds
Max: 13 °C
Min: 1 °C
Clouds and sun
Max: 14 °C
Min: 6 °C
Mostly cloudy with spotty showers
Max: 16 °C
Min: 6 °C
