FF rebels fighting wrong cause

ONE shouldn’t be too surprised to hear that Fianna Fáil backbenchers are threatening a revolt. You’d expect adevelopment like that given our frightful economic emergency. But it’s not over government policy or proposals on any of these or other weighty issues that the Soldiers of Destiny are grumbling.

It’s the prospect of the drink/driving limit being further reduced. They fear this move would spell the death-knell for the fabric of life and culture in rural Ireland, seemingly overlooking the fact that very few people ever go out for one drink anyway.

As a rule, they either drink no alcohol when driving or give the keys to someone else, hire a taxi, or make other arrangements.