The Department of Health is introducing new measures to make it easier to monitor how much alcohol you're knocking back - and see how fattening it is.
Every bottle sold in Ireland will have to state the number of grams of pure alcohol it contains, as well as the calories, under new legislation to be published this summer.
An Irish "standard drink" contains 10g of alcohol - the equivalent of a small 100ml glass of wine, a half-pint of beer or a single measure of spirits.
However, higher strength wines or beers obviously contain more, so the new labelling rules will make this clearer, along with health warnings and advice.
In a week, the most a woman should drink is 110g of alcohol, while for a man the limit is 170g.
That adds up to 1.5 bottles of wine with 12.5pc alcohol, or six pints of beer for women; while for men, the low-risk limit is two bottles of wine or eight pints - but not all at once.
Source: Irish Independent, 22/04/15
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