Former All Blacks star Doug Howlett was arrested by Irish police on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly at his Christmas party night out with his Munster teammates.

Eden Park Trust is hoping the first large crowd at the stadium since the Four Nations rugby league debacle last month will be well-behaved.

A field hospital has been set up in the heart of London's financial district to treat blind-drunk corporate revellers.

An alcohol-fuelled Auckland road crash early this morning has left a teenage girl dead and three in shock.

A boy, 14, had to be restrained with handcuffs after he was caught allegedly drink driving.

An injured man broke a police officer's nose as the officer tried to help restrain him in an ambulance.

Among the many terrible and tragic headlines appearing in the newspapers of late, one that is not only terrible and tragic but also potentially rather disturbing leapt out at me: "Call for alcohol ban after Xmas concert ends in violence."

A $5 million a year study has found that 40 per cent of the babies born in Auckland and the Waikato in the past year were "accidents".