Mixed signals on alcohol deserve red card

SO a man walks into a hotel bar to celebrate a wedding and everything goes enjoyably until he does what he knows he shouldn’t and takes a drink.

As the evening progresses, he grows increasingly erratic so that by three in the morning, he’s trying to break into cars parked outside, roaring aggressively into the night air, abusing the hotel staff who try to calm him and needing to have gardaí called to deal with him.

It happens all the time, at every hotel, pub and nightclub in the country. It’s just another pain in the backside drunk who can spoil an occasion in a swallow, disturb everyone within shouting distance, take up garda time and ask more than anyone has a right to of mainly minimum wage workers who just want to clean up and go home.