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I'm Katie Flannery and you're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
In this edition of Assignment, I'm in Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
The country has seen the introduction of some of the strongest warnings on consuming alcohol anywhere in the world.
So are Irish people changing their relationship with drink?
This is a drinking song from Cork called Johnny Jump Up, named after a mythical cider.
The traditional Irish pub.
Around the world, home to a convivial, sometimes raucous atmosphere,
an alcoholic drink, or two, or three, and distinctive music.
That's what gets people going.
It's absolutely great to look down in a crowd when you have them roiled up and people are just launching plastic pints around the place and there's beer flying anywhere.
I love that, you know?
That's what it's all about.
Tomas Mulligan helps run the cobblestone pub, which his father owns in the Irish capital Dublin.
It's a legendary music venue, and Tomas is also a keen musician.
Drinking, though, can lead to regret.
Johnny John Bubb is a song about the fear,
and that's something that anyone who's had a few points can attest to.
It's a universal feeling in Ireland, the fear being, oh mother of God.