Government: minimum alcohol unit pricing won't see people heading to the North in large numbers
Minister Stephen Donnelly says the government here wasn't willing to wait until at least 2023 to bring in the laws in tandem with Northern Ireland.
Minimum unit pricing will take effect here from January 2022.
Prof Siobhan MacHale, Consultant at Beaumont Hospital, says it's a very welcome move:
"I see patients affected by the impact of alcohol related harm on a daily basis. The mother in her 40s on a medical ward with alcohol related brain damage who doesn't recognise her 12 year old child, when they come in to visit her."
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