That's the equivalent of 29 litres of vodka, 116 bottles of wine or 445 pints of beer.
A new report from the Health Research Board says it’s not just what Irish people drink, but how we drink that causes the most harm.
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The effects of alcohol consumption was responsible for 10% of money spent on public health care in 2013 while alcohol abuse was responsible for three deaths every day in the same year.
Between 2001 and 2010, one in ten breast cancer cases was attributable to alcohol, its attributed to one in three self harm admissions to hospital in 2014 and its estimated that more than 167,000 people suffered an alcohol-related assault.
Dr Deirdre Mongan from the HRB says our drinking culture is costing the public health system a fortune:
