‘Massive support’ for drink-drive idea

Rural drinkers yesterday raised their glasses to a councillor who called for Garda permits to be issued to people in the countryside allowing them a pint or two over the legal limit.

Danny Healy-Rae said he had had a “massive reaction” to his permit proposal, passed at a meeting of Kerry County Council on Monday.

“The mobile hasn’t stopped since I got the first call at five to seven this morning. It’s certainly an issue, no doubt about that,” he declared after alighting from a JCB in his native Kilgarvan.