Yes, we like a drink or three, but not daily

We don't consider having just one glass 'proper' drinking, and we like to drink properly, writes Brendan O'Connor

iF there's one thing the Irish are more obsessed with than drink, it's our relationship with drink. The nation itself is like someone who drinks too much. When we're not drinking, we're beating ourselves up about drink. Then we have a little bit more drink and we're fine again.

Given that we have now talked ourselves into believing we are alcoholics, perhaps you won't raise an eyebrow about today's Sunday Independent/Millward Brown IMS poll findings on booze, but the findings provide a valuable, ...