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Revealed: The amount of alcohol Irish people consume per year as Covid blamed for more home drinking
Research from The Health Research Board shows that Ireland now has the ninth highest alcohol consumption rate in the world.
Research from The Health Research Board show that Ireland now has the ninth highest alcohol consumption rate in the world.
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Irish People Drink The Equivalent Of 40 Bottles Of Vodka Per Year
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According to new research, Irish people drink on average more than 10 litres of alcohol per year.
It s the equivalent of 40 bottles of vodka, 113 bottles of wine or 436 pints of beer.
The Health Research Board has found that alcohol consumption levels have plateaued since 2013, but people s consumption remains significantly higher than the government s 2020 target of no more than 9.1 litres of pure alcohol per person a year.
Professor Frank Murray, chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance Ireland, and Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the UK-based Institute of Economic Affairs, joined us to discuss this.
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Yet the receipts also reveal how our drinking habits have changed during the pandemic, with wine consumption up 12pc over 2019, followed by a slight increase in consumption of spirits – 0.7pc – while there was a 21pc decrease in consumption of beer and an 11.4pc drop in consumption of cider.
Alcohol Action spokesman Eunan McKinney said: “The data for the year 2020 highlights the extraordinary shift that has taken place among Ireland’s dinking population and the ocean of alcohol that has poured into the nation’s homes.”
“From the beginning of the Covid crisis we have been urging government to act on this consequence. The introduction of minimum unit pricing on alcohol products, which primarily applies to the off-trade who have experienced a profit boom, would act as some curb on what undoubtedly will be the source of many problems to come; a temporary lifestyle may now be permanent habit, meantime 200,000 children every day have to navigate the chaos of parental proble