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Drunk-Driving Is OK. Really, Ireland?
Officials in Kerry county, Ireland, have voted in support of giving reasonably drunk-driving a lawful pass. Ireland's Department of Justice has yet to weigh in on the issue.
Drunk-driving punished no longer
Drivers in rural Kerry county who are found to have more than the legal amount of alcohol in their system will be given a pass, according to motion author Councilor Danny Healy-Rae. Healy-Rae supposedly drafted the legislation with older rural citizens in mind who will become remote at home and suffer depression if they have to fear losing their license over "two or three drinks."
"I see the merit in having a stricter rule of law for when there's a massive volume of traffic and where there's busy roads with massive speed," Healy-Rae told Irish newspaper The Journal. "But on the roads I'm talking about, you couldn't do any more than 20 or 30 miles per hour and it's not a big deal. I don't see any big issue with it."
Avoiding suicide
Healy-Rae said that there are a ton of older members in the community who are committing suicide since they are unable to drive after getting hit with a DUI. Isolation is a big problem in the area.
"All the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had is being lost as a result," he said.
Some upset about it
According to Kerry Mayor Terry O'Brien, the law does not make any sense and is a very dangerous thing to even consider. He believes that people have to stay away from being severely impaired, which takes place when there is too much drinking. He does not approve of the legislation.
"I don't know what expertise one would have to look at someone in a bar to give them a permit to drive a car after any alcohol," O'Brien added.
Alcohol Action Ireland rep Conor Cullen is in O'Brien's corner with regards to the drunk-driving motion. He noted that anti-drunk-driving measures have lowered Ireland's road deaths by 42 percent over the past four years. Cullen feels that the new drunk-driving permissiveness will only serve to tear down the work that has been done.
"Almost one in three crash deaths in Ireland are alcohol-related," Cullen said. "Even in small amounts, alcohol impairs driving ability - any amount of alcohol increases the risk of involvement in a fatal crash."
Drunk-driving punished no longer
Drivers in rural Kerry county who are found to have more than the legal amount of alcohol in their system will be given a pass, according to motion author Councilor Danny Healy-Rae. Healy-Rae supposedly drafted the legislation with older rural citizens in mind who will become remote at home and suffer depression if they have to fear losing their license over "two or three drinks."
"I see the merit in having a stricter rule of law for when there's a massive volume of traffic and where there's busy roads with massive speed," Healy-Rae told Irish newspaper The Journal. "But on the roads I'm talking about, you couldn't do any more than 20 or 30 miles per hour and it's not a big deal. I don't see any big issue with it."
Avoiding suicide
Healy-Rae said that there are a ton of older members in the community who are committing suicide since they are unable to drive after getting hit with a DUI. Isolation is a big problem in the area.
"All the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had is being lost as a result," he said.
Some upset about it
According to Kerry Mayor Terry O'Brien, the law does not make any sense and is a very dangerous thing to even consider. He believes that people have to stay away from being severely impaired, which takes place when there is too much drinking. He does not approve of the legislation.
"I don't know what expertise one would have to look at someone in a bar to give them a permit to drive a car after any alcohol," O'Brien added.
Alcohol Action Ireland rep Conor Cullen is in O'Brien's corner with regards to the drunk-driving motion. He noted that anti-drunk-driving measures have lowered Ireland's road deaths by 42 percent over the past four years. Cullen feels that the new drunk-driving permissiveness will only serve to tear down the work that has been done.
"Almost one in three crash deaths in Ireland are alcohol-related," Cullen said. "Even in small amounts, alcohol impairs driving ability - any amount of alcohol increases the risk of involvement in a fatal crash."
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