More women drinking in the home

At the annual meeting of the Wexford Temperance Council, the secretary Mr N Cosgrave noted that recent times had seen the transferring of excessive drinking from the public house to the home. What is worrying, according to Mr. Cosgrave, is that many women are taking advantage of this trend to drink silently by themselves. 

The Very Rev. W. Canon Fortune, who presided over the meeting, criticised the Wexford magistrates for the granting of new licenses in Wexford town and stated that there are already too many public houses in the town. 

He said that according to a friend of his in Dublin, there had been a marked improvement regarding temperance among the male population of that city but unfortunately the same could not be said about the females.

Mr A McCann, who was also present at the meeting, believed that all crime in the county of Wexford was due to alcohol.

The meeting closed with a number of resolutions being passed including calling upon of the public boards to give preference to those candidates running for public office who were total abstainers and the deploring of the prevalence of Sunday drink trading.