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‘A bad hangover used to be my favourite accessory’ – our changing relationship with alcohol

I am the child of a mixed marriage. My mother doesn’t drink at all, and never has; my father drank like most Irishmen of his generation: in a way that seems excessive now, but was within the bounds of ‘normal’ back then. My mother may not have drunk alcohol, but she was tolerant of drink.… Read More »