Penalty points report - No more looking the other way

If ever there was any doubt that Ireland is a nation of fixers it will be dispelled by the quashing of penalty points.

It explains the knee-jerk reaction of most people when they either break the rules or run foul of the law who ask: “Who can fix this for me? Who do I know that get me out of this jam?”

Given that it is operated behind closed doors, the penalty points system is widely perceived as yet another example of favouritism and hypocrisy, thus underlining the popular view that the law is a twin-track system dividing the privileged classes from the average citizen.