Only in Ireland…..details from the national review:
A local council in County Kerry, Ireland, passed a measure Monday night in favor of loosening drunk-driving laws for residents in rural areas of the country. Councilor Danny Healy-Rae, who proposed the motion, argued that allowing people to consume two to three pints at the local pub prior to driving home would be beneficial for the community. “A lot of these people are living in isolated rural areas where there’s no public transport of any kind, and they end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don’t want to take the risk of losing their license,” he said in an interview with the online Irish news publication the Journal
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