Geraldine Walsh doesn’t like the taste, or the aftermath of one too many glasses of alcohol. So why, she wonders, do so many people struggle with her decision not to drink?

St Patrick’s Day, inextricably linked with excessive drinking and anti-social behaviour, is undergoing something of a rebranding. 

IT’S Wednesday night and we’re around the kitchen table. Unusually for a week night, some friends are over, the craic is good, and the wine is flowing.