118,000 Alcohol Crime Cases in Just 18 Mths ; Shocking Truth of Ireland's Booze Culture That Includes Drunkenness, Threatening and Abusive Behaviour, Assaults and Underage Drinking..

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MORE than 210 alcohol-related crimes were committed in Ireland EVERY DAY in the 18 months up to August 2003, new figures revealed yesterday.

The Garda statistics showed a total of 118,000 offences were detected from February 2002 under Operation Encounter. Since it began, gardai have detected:

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118,000 Alcohol Crime Cases in Just 18 Mths ; Shocking Truth of Ireland's Booze Culture That Includes Drunkenness, Threatening and Abusive Behaviour, Assaults and Underage Drinking..

31,971 incidents of threatening, abusive and insulting behaviour

8,906 cases of assault, 4,105 of which were assault causing ha...

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