Ireland has always had a complicated relationship with drink… but in 1971, doctors, economists, and coroners were already warning us where it was heading. Long before minimum pricing, before campaigns, before breathalysers were trusted — Ireland was spending more on alcohol than almost anywhere else, moving from pints to spirits, and quietly normalising drunkenness as ‘a bit of craic’. One Galway coroner even warned that the danger wasn’t just the road home… it was the stairs, the bed, the laugh

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