Female students binge drink like males

FEMALE college students are beginning to binge drink as often as their male colleagues and in some cases are drinking equal measures of alcohol, a health study has warned.

Third-level students in University College Cork (UCC) were asked about their consumption of alcohol and drugs, and the effects of these on their social and academic lives.

Researchers have called for a drinks and a drugs advisory group to be set up in every college on the back of the findings.