Rural drinkers should not get legal preference

THE drink driving discussion on the Late Late Show (November 24) was frustrating, to say the least.

Yet again the rural case, presented by Cllr Michael Healy Rae and, to a lesser extent, by Brenda Power used the old cliché of ‘the decimation of rural Ireland’ as an excuse to have some kind of modified law on drink driving.

This type of moaning is an embarrassment to those of us living in rural Ireland, and I believe it does not reflect accurately our attitudes to drink driving.