A decade ago, 31% of younger women reported drinking to excess, but this has now risen to 39%. Picture posed. Photograph: Getty
More young women and teenage girls are drinking harmful levels of alcohol than females in those age groups did a decade ago, a survey has found.
Overall in the Department of Health’s annual Health Ireland survey 26 per cent of people reported binge drinking.
This was down from 28 per cent in 2024 and 30 per cent in 2015, suggesting the trends of alcohol consump
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