Alcohol abuse is bringing Ireland to its knees

EVERY day, alcohol’s burden on society gets heavier and heavier.

Alcohol abuse is bringing Ireland to its knees

Last week, the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children heard that there had been a four-fold increase over the last five years in the number of women who had been so drunk they could not remember if they had been sexually assaulted.

Doctors told shocked politicians that between 15% and 25% of admissions to accident and emergency units were alcohol-related.

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