According to the committee, which was set up in 1954 by milk-drinking MendesFrance, who was then Premier, a Frenchman drinks 10 times as much spirits as an American or Swede, five times as much as an Englishman and four times as much as a Belgian.

It says that in one year, more than 7,000 people were treated for mental troubles due to alcoholism. According to the committee, the average drink consumption of each Frenchman every year is nearly five gallons of pure alcohol. Other moves include the distribution to schoolchildren of five million blotters with cartoons on the back illustrating the lives of 'exemplary men who were sober'.

The Irish Sportsman February 7, 1880 SIR Dominic Corrigan, Bart. , MD. A great Irishman has just passed away in the eminent physician whose fame was bounded only by the limits throughout which the progress of Medicine is interesting. He was about the last survivor of the race of great Dublin Doctors through whose genius and labours the Dublin School of Medicine and Surgery have acquired world-wide renown. Carmichael, Crampton, Graves, Marsh, Stokes, the Ledwiches, and others have preceded to 'the Land of the Hereafter' the deceased Baronet, whose study in Merrion-square was so often sought by patients, from far as well as near, as the last plank to save them from death. And many thousands left the consulting room of the great Physician with the hopes of years of life and health by his judicious advice and apt remedies. Sir Dominic Corrigan would not now be described as a 'scientific Physician', his early training having been rather haphazard for modern scientific notions;

but he had an intuitive knowledge of a Doctor's work, which his great practice helped to develop into an excellence rarely attained.

Freeman's Journal 1 February, 1815 STATISTICAL Survey of Ireland. Parish of Baileborough, Co Cavan and Meath. By the Rev. John Gumly. Longevity.Instances of longevity are not uncommon. Some years ago there was a man who died at the advance age of 110, and there is a woman still alive, who was born in August, 1709. There are many now living and in good health from 70 to 90 years old. Disposition, Language. with regard to the genius and disposition of the poorer class, I must acknowledge, that the prevailing propensities are on the side of idleness and love of whiskey. The English language is now in universal use. Customs. - We have no patrons or patron-days, except that on Christmas day, and on the first of the year, a great concourse of people assemble on the strand at White Park to play 'common' or 'shinny'. This formerly was frequented by old and young, and the amusement generally ended by drinking whiskey and broken heads: but of late years, only young people appear on these occasions, and the day concludes without drunkenness or riot.