.... More than one in five adults in EU countries reported in 2014 heavy alcohol drinking at least once a month. In Ireland excessive alcohol consumption was well above the EU average, with 32 per cent of adults reporting having had at least six drinks in a single occasion each month in 2014.

Ireland led the EU countries in 2000 with an average annual consumption of 14.2 litres of alcohol per adult, drinking over three litres more than on average across the EU. This consumption level has gone down to 10.9 litres per capita in 2015, now only one litre above the EU.....