Home and Away spoilers: Irene FALLS down the stairs!

Irene Roberts (played by Lynne McGranger) is still in denial about her drinking problem on Home and Away (1:45pm - see our TV Guide for listings).

After recently falling off the wagon again, alcoholic Irene secretly brings a flask of booze with her to work at the Diner.

Irene is annoyed after she overhears her colleagues, Leah Patterson (Ada Nicodemou) and Marilyn Chambers (Emily Symons), talking about her again.

So she sneaks into the storeroom to drown her sorrows by secretly drinking on the job!

However, Irene's boozy state causes her to mess-up food orders at the Diner.

Which leads to a confrontation with concerned Leah...

Back home alone, Irene pours herself another drink to dull the pain.

But when Irene starts walking upstairs, she suddenly becomes dizzy and falls backwards...

Tane Parata (Ethan Browne) does his best to convince Perri Hayes (Cantona Stewart) to stay in the Bay.

Things won't be good if teenager Perri returns home to live with his abusive dad.

Tane tries to make further progress with Perri by helping him with his reading.

But Perri struggles to concentrate, having been called stupid by his dad for years.

Can Tane find a way to convince Perri to stick with it?

Harper Matheson (Jessica Redmayne) prepares to go for her first ultrasound scan... alone.

Pregnant social worker Harper still hasn't been able to find the right time to tell friend Tane about her baby bombshell.

But is Tane about to accidentally find out the truth?

After Harper's sister, Dana (Ally Harris), lies that Harper is laying low because she's been feeling sick, Tane goes in search of her...

Will he discover the REAL reason why Harper hasn't been feeling so great?

Home and Away continues weekdays at 1:45pm on Channel 5

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The series is also available to stream on My5