Another quote from the Ferriter book comes from Kevin O'Higgins in the Dail in the 1920's and is relevant to our excessive drinking paper. Here he answers the question of what is excessive drinking. Linked below is the modern students answer.
"That of course is a question of angles. What is excessive drinking? I do not take it that excessive drinking means that you fall over a man every five yards on your way home. If we are drinking beyond our resources there is excessive drinking. 17.5 million was spent across the counter on drink in the financial yeat 1925-6. Is that excessive drinking? Some people would say no. Some people would say very differently. At any rate I object to the criterion that drunkenness and drunkenness alone is to be the test of whether or not there is excessive drinking"
http://geary.ucd.ie/images/Publications/WorkingPapers/GearyWp200712.pdf
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I think there is a difference between spending beyond one's means (on any item of expenditure) and debilitating one's self through the consumption of alcohol!
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