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St Patrick's Day celebrations

Figures from An Garda Síochána show that, to date in 2023, there have been 937 drink-driving and 584 drug-driving arrests. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

St Patrick’s Day falls on a Friday this year, a convenient day for those wishing to make a long weekend of celebrating our national saint.

Readers may observe that the word “celebrating” is doing quite a lot of heavy lifting in the above sentence. For those intent on a weekend of consumption and ingestion, it might be worth considering the Road Safety Authority’s (RSA) recent appeal for people to make good choices when driving and to avoid driving if impaired by drink or drugs.