One in five Irish people experienced “guilt” or “remorse” after drinking alcohol in the last 12 months, according to the Healthy Ireland Survey 2017 published on Tuesday.
The survey, which was conducted by Ipsos MRBI and interviewed 7,487 people, found that 76 per cent of people consumed alcohol, and 54 per cent drank alcohol at least once a week.
The age cohort with the highest rate of alcohol consumption was those aged between 25 and 44, 85 per cent of whom drink alcohol.
One in 10 people said they had at times “failed to do what was normally expected of them because of drinking”.
The survey, which has been carried out annually for the last three years, found the rate of smoking had declined slightly over the last year, from 23 to 22 per cent.
Source: Jack Power, The Irish Times, 25/10/2017
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