‘Alcohol kills three people every day’

Three people are dying every day in Ireland due to alcohol, according to one of the country’s top doctors.

Liver specialist, Professor Frank Murray, said the rise in the number of alcohol-related cases of liver disease in young women has become tragically high and people are unaware or reckless about risks of alcohol abuse.

The President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland said it is a silent disease which often shows little or no symptoms until the liver has gone into failure.