Michelle O'Neill

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Today with David McCullagh · How much alcohol is it safe to drink? HIQA research support update to Ireland’s low-risk alcohol guidelines · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, it goes up to about one in a thousand.

But it is important to know that there is no bottom limit really.

So any alcohol you consume does increase your risk.

So it's about people making that informed choice about what risk they're willing to accept and just to know those risks, I think.

Well, there is a risk.

I think it's important that people know that any alcohol consumption at all does increase your risk of, you know, those health outcomes like dying early and admission to hospital.

And I guess it's not to say...

Like any alcohol does have a risk, but the less you drink, the lower your risk is.

So you can have an impact there yourself by drinking less, you will have a lower risk.

We saw that very clearly.

It's a continuum.

So the more you drink, the higher your risk becomes.

They are indeed, yeah.

So alcohol really is, you know, it is a public health issue.

It is causing a lot of harm to our population.

Yes, absolutely.

I mean, our focus was more on individuals' risk, but that number of hospital admissions is quite a lot.

We had a look actually.

So if you drink the same amount of alcohol, but concentrated into fewer days.

So if you take, you know, the amount of alcohol you might drink over a week and compare that to somebody who drinks it all just at the weekend, the health outcomes are worse for those people just drinking it over the weekend rather than the same amount of alcohol spread out over a number of different days.

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