Siobhan O'Connor column: Binge drinking still alive and well for St Patrick's Day
We wear our hangovers like a badge of honour as binge drinking is alive and well this Paddy’s weekend.
Sitting opposite Ryan Tubridy on The Late Late Show discussing my youthful drinking habits sent a rush of panic through me. TV’s Maia Dunphy was on the couch with me and she had no trouble waxing lyrical about her drinking; sure she had shot an entire documentary on the subject entitled Merlot and Me.
I confessed to the nation that fateful night in 2015, that my sisters used to call me “psycho Sibh” after guzzling back too much white wine, and admitting to Tubs that this tipple didn’t agree with me.Fast forward to 2019 and as Paddy’s Day fast approaches we are still bandying about the term, “binge drinking”.
Although our parents knew deep down that we were engaging in alcohol related debauchery, they turned a blind eye preferring to believe their precious darlings weren’t up to mischief.
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