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12th June 2017
05:50pm BST
According to Tom Lyons in the Sunday Business Post, we now rank in 18th position between Finland and Portugal.
Back in 2005, the WHO claimed that Irish people drank an average of 14.4 litres of alcohol. That fell to an average of 10.9 litres in 2016.
The rate of Ireland's decline in alcohol consumption is more than twice the EU28 average rate.
In 2016, the people of Lithuania were the heaviest drinkers in Europe on 18.2 litres. The Czech Republic came in second place.
Consumption in the United Kingdom also fell between 2005 and 2016, although at a far slower rate than Ireland's, from 13.4 litres in 2005 to 12.3 litres in 2016. A drop of eight percent.Explore more on these topics:
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