Find out the damage alcohol is doing to your body

Our high intake of alcohol could be more damaging to our health than we realise, Peta Bee looks at the hard facts.

IT’S a well known fact that Ireland’s alcohol intake is among the highest in Europe.

And it shows no signs of slowing down with figures from Alcohol Action Ireland showing that, in 2014, the average Irish person aged 15 and over drank 11 litres of pure alcohol, an increase from 10.6 litres in 2013.