Failure to embrace Ross’s plan shameful

That Ross’s proposed change (re drink driving) is not embraced by the whole body politic is an acute embarrassment to any country which describes itself as civilised, writes Michael Clifford

THERE was a great laugh about the killing and dying on Irish roads during the week. Danny Healy Rae told an Oireachtas committee that alcohol is being blamed for deaths on the road when sometimes the real reason is bushes and briars.

“Our roads aren’t adequate for pedestrians,” he told the minister for transport, Shane Ross. “We’re not allowed to cut the bushes because briars and bushes are hanging out on the road and some other do-gooders won’t let us cut the bushes except for a few months of the year.”