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Alcohol misuse the "greatest healthcare problem facing Northern Ireland" - coroner fires warning over our booze use

Alcohol misuse the "greatest healthcare problem facing Northern Ireland" - coroner fires warning over our booze use.

The number of alcohol related deaths here is at a record high according to figures obtained by 成人快手 News NI. Between 2001 and 2016, more than 3,500 deaths in Northern Ireland were attributed to alcohol - that's more than four-a-week on average. Stephen spoke to GP Dr George O'Neill who is chair of Addiction NI, Eamon Foley from Strabane was a homeless street drinker, and journalist and travel writer Tim Hedgley gave up drink in January this year.

Also on the programme, Jeremy Corbyn has clashed with the Israeli Prime Minister as a row escalated over the Labour leader's presence at an event which included the honouring of a Palestinian suspected of involvement in the Munich Olympics massacre. Benjamin Netanyahu said Mr Corbyn deserved "unequivocal condemnation" for laying a wreath on the grave of one of those behind the atrocity. The Labour leader said the claims about his actions are false. Stephen got the views of Labour party member Phil Kelly, Andrew Pierce from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror's Associate Editor Kevin Maguire.

And, a no-deal Brexit could virtually wipe out sheep farming in Northern Ireland. That's the claim from the Ulster Farmers' Union beef and sheep chairman Sam Chesney. He says the imposition of costly tariffs could price local lamb producers out of the French market. That would be very costly for the industry here, which exports a large amount of produce there. Mr Chesney said that a loss of access to French consumers would be "devastating". Stephen spoke to Sam Chesney from the UFU and SDLP MLA Claire Hanna.

All that and more on the biggest show in the country.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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  • Tue 14 Aug 2018 09:03

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