This week on Life Unfiltered, Maria McHale sat down with DCU’s Assistant Professor of psychotherapy Dr Ray O’Neill to talk about Ireland’s deeply complicated relationship with alcohol – not just the statistics, but the culture underneath. 

They discussed how addiction so often functions as a hiding place and also explored the ripple effect of addiction through families, through children who grow up managing everyone else’s feelings. You can find out more about Dr. Ray O’Neill’s practice at www.machna.ie