Sobering shift: Are Irish women changing their relationship to alcohol?

National Women's Health Survey: Despite what the marketing departments might tell us, alcohol isn’t a healthy way to unwind, and more women are realising they are better off without it

More women are choosing park runs, saunas, and kombucha, rather than pubs, booze, and hangovers. Picture: iStock

Are women waking up to the fact that booze may not be our best friend? 

That, actually, we have been in a long-term toxic relationship with an addictive, carcinogenic drug, one from which we may be slowly beginning to detach?