Drink driving tests saga reveals a dangerous and darkening farce

THOUGH it hasn’t been done yet, it can’t be too long more before one Garda organisation or another uses what might be called the Danny Healy-Rae defence. 

Remember, just over a month ago and almost 50 years after man landed on the moon, the Kerry deputy suggested that the little people might be responsible for a recurring road problem in the Kingdom. Might they be responsible for inflated drink driving tests too?

That old reliable — systems failure — has already been blamed, but yesterday’s statement from the Garda Representative Association, insisting that they will not be “scapegoated”, suggests we may not have to wait too long more before we hear the Healy-Rae defence.