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A NEW STUDY has put Ireland top of the list of countries that pre-drink before going out.
The research found that in a survey of 25 countries, Ireland had the highest rate of pre-drinking, with 85% of people surveyed saying they drank alcohol in a private setting before going out to a pub.
The study, published in the Drug and Alcohol Review journal, was featured on the front page of this morning’s Irish Examiner. It looked at the effects drinking, heavy drinking and drink prices had on pre-drinking behaviour.
It estimated the percentage of pre-drinkers in countries using data from the Global Drugs Survey, with 65,126 people surveyed in total across the 25 countries.
In Ireland, 1,883 people were surveyed.
Greece has the lowest percentage of pre-drinkers (17.7%). Norway was closest to Ireland in terms of pre-drinkers, with just over 80% of respondents pre-drinking.
Next came New Zealand (78.7%) and Denmark (76.2). In the UK, just over 75% of people said they pre-drank.
The study found that countries that had a higher level of current drinkers tended to have a higher percentage of pre-drinkers. Just over 80% of Irish people surveyed were current drinkers. While 48.2% of drinkers were described as heavy drinkers.
The results also showed that a higher the ratio between off-premises and on-premises drinking (as in, the higher the difference between drinking at home compared to drinking in a pub) resulted in a higher percentage of pre-drinkers.
“Pre-drinking appears to be a worldwide phenomenon,” the studies authors concluded.
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35 foot taps in 1 second??? Really
@Trevor Rooney: lol, I didn’t even see your comment.
@Trevor Rooney: Yeah. That sounds impossible?
@Trevor Rooney: Sure there’s a fella in Scotland did 38!!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/flatley-rival-taps-controversy-over-fastest-feet-claim-2508656%3famp
@Trevor Rooney: sure aren’t me feet so fast from walking on the lush green grass of me homeland, begorrah.
@Mark o’ Leary: Fine soft day, begorrah aye.
@Vonvonic: the Guinness record is actually 38 taps per second held by James Devine, an Edinburgh-based Irish tap teacher, set in 2000 apparently.
Most taps in a minute though is 1,163, which is about 19 times a second, set by Anthony Morigerato in June 2011.
@D. Memery: he’s not from Edinburgh. He’s from Ardmacrusha in co. Clare. I know him. And its just irish dancing not irish tap. He is brilliant.
@D. Memery: Mental. Is that both feet?
I came on here only to appeal to the people of Ireland to stop this great annoyance of dance crazes. Cops dancing at beauty spots, nursing home staff irish dancing. Christ – give me strength.
@Armchair Follower: ah go one, sure isn’t it only a bit of fun? I bet you’d enjoy yourself if you loosened up a bit.
@Armchair Follower: iam sure ye have enough strength in you’re left and right wrist.
@Deborah Blacoe: or maybe he’s just not a sheep and would prefer a police force that isn’t corrupt to a bunch of dancers. I think by “lighten up” you mean “ah sure why not dumb yourself down to our level”.
@merely ed: or maybe he has a problem with nursing home staff only getting €10 an hour and dancing at the same time.
@Paul Gorry: exactly! It’s insane! And the only thing that annoys me more is the “ah sure lighten up” crowd. “Ah sure turn off RTE and get your head out of the sand”, morelike.
@merely ed: go to sleep. You won’t feel as whingey in the morning.
@Paul Furey: you ever heard of timezones, pal? Enjoy yer dancing distractions.
35 taps in one second???? What on earth is going on with that mans feet…..
@Gordon Larney: They flail about as if independent from his body
@Matt Fagan: I see what you did there ;)
My son could do the floss when he was 3. So could all his cousins. I couldn’t. And oh how I tried.
8 out of ten. Miley and Flatley let me down
@Geraldine Lawlor: I’m giving you a pass on Flatley. Unless he’s got feet like wood packers, he never did that.
@Vonvonic: woodpeckers lol
@Vonvonic: yes he did, sour Scotsman
@Vonvonic: he did do it but its not actually the record. That’s James Devine at 38 taps per second.
@LiamMac2018: Bad assumption there. Way off. I’m neither.
I had to sing achy breaky heart to get it……saaaaaad.
I tried tap dancing once. Fell in the sink though.
Amazing to tap 35 times in one second. Sounds impossible but wow what an incredible “feet” ha ha ha ha
Bh
I was sure we’d get a question about
“Oops Upside Your Head” by the Gap Band!
How could you leave that out?
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