Gardaí lose bid to cut Puck drinking

A JUDGE yesterday rejected a garda request to curtail early-morning drinking and warned the gardaí he didn’t want to see the issue before him again for at least two years.

The request to cut drinking times by an hour at one of the country’s oldest fairs, which has a reputation for excess boozing, was refused by District Court Judge James O’Connor yesterday.

He said he hoped the issue would not come before him again in 2008 or 2009.