Bottling up problems: More young women presenting with alcohol-related liver disease

Women are constantly on the receiving end of messages about 'wine o clock', but problem drinking among Irish women is on the rise, with a worrying increase in women dying of liver disease at a young age. Nicole Glennon reports

Problem drinking among women is on the rise, according to a leading specialist.

More younger women are presenting with alcohol-related liver disease as a leading specialist warns that problem drinking among women is on the rise.

In the past 12 months, Dr Anthony O’Connor, a consultant gastroenterologist at Tallaght Hospital, said he has seen four women in their early 40s die of alcohol-related liver disease (ALD).