Last week, after one too many drinks at our summer work do, I tried to book a taxi home.

Instead, I somehow managed to apply for a job with a well-known Belfast taxi firm.

I have absolutely no recollection of doing it. In fact, I only found out when someone from the company rang a few days later inviting me to interview.

To their credit they were very polite. I, on the other hand, had to explain that while I greatly admired their business, I wasn’t entirely sure I’d intended to apply to become one of their drivers.

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I’ve told that story more times than I can count over the past week. Friends laughed. Colleagues laughed. My parents laughed. I laughed.

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That’s what we do, but it’s got me thinking about our relationship with alcohol.

It’s widely known that most Irish people enjoy a drink. It’s practically become part of........

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