He would be a great one actually!!

Good few of them are 18.

Ah that’s ok then. Because we condone 17 year olds going out “on the lash” once there are a few adults there to buy them alcohol. You just have to love compliance with the law in this country, and moral ambiguity where it suits people.

Clearly a lot of drinking children on this website, or adults who think it’s a good thing to buy alcohol for children. Neither a good category to be in.

Prof, why do you presume that these young adults are children until 17, and then all of a sudden they turn 18, and are capable of handling alcohol?
I’ve said it before, it’s the Irish solution – we ban them from drinking, therefore they will be completely equipped to handle it when they turn 18?
Wrong, it is our responsibility, as their parents, their protectors, to teach them about life. Alcohol exists, drugs exist, sex exists, and there is no hope of us ever removing these from society. We can, however, teach them about alcohol, teach them about drugs, sex, relationships, abuse, personal respect, all of the things that go with adulthood. It’s not about teaching them to drink, have sex, relationships, it’s about teaching them to do it safely, To know the risks, the advantages, disadvantages, the rock’n'roll of it all – because that doesn’t just arrive in our brains, it has to be learnt, in the same way you learn to spell, or calculate, or read. We can pretend it doesn’t exist, but if you go to any street corner in any city in Ireland, you’ll find dubiously young looking adults carrying out dubious looking activities, and until we teach our children of what life holds, it ain’t gonna change. Open your eyes Prof, it exists.
To bring it back to the article, good to see them enjoying themselves – quite refreshing!

And any way all this talk about binge drinking and other shite is all a way of putting more tax on drink and closing tge gap in the health spending if they really wanted to stop all this drinking underage why not put it up to 21s it’s a lot easier to tell someone not being 21 than 18 all these do holders too much time on there hands

I’ve either forgotten me meds or you’ve reposted! Lets hope it’s the latter and not the former!

Your ok Michael.it’s me who forgot the meds.

how’s the phone fixing business going for ya?

I think there might be something wrong with your phone screen

..no Harry Potter is 13, Daniel Radcliffe is 23

I believe what he said was they were stone cold sober and were only looking for some crack!

If they were habitual drinkers then they wouldn’t be All-Ireland Champions

You only need to be 17 (or have your 18th birthday on) the first of January to play minor GAA for the year. Good few of them have turned 18 since the first of Jan, so legally entitled to drink despite your views on alcohol.