Deaths on the roads - Drive as you like others to drive

AT MIDDAY yesterday — statistically the most dangerous day of the year on our roads — An Garda Síochána website recorded that 329 people have been killed on our roads this year.

It is likely but no less sad that that figure will move closer to the 2006 toll, which reached 365, before the holiday period comes to an end in early January.

More empty chairs around Christmas dinner tables, more silences and more tears.