One for the Road!

Top of the day to you, eh! May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead! Not that I'm suggesting your time is imminent, I should mention. Pour your grand self a mug of coffee and personhandle a virtual treat onto your plate. Try one with the emerald icing, why don't'cha? Now...score one for senior citizens in Ireland, eh!

The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county's isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. 

The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the councillors, the area is so sparsely populated that such drivers never encounter anyone else on the road at night. 

(The councillors' beneficence might also have been influenced, reported BBC News, by the fact that "several" of the five voting "yea" own pubs.) [BBC News, 1-22-2013] 

Well faith and begorragh. It's about time, wouldn't'cha say? So, pour me another Murphy's for the ditch, Paddy, if you would be so kind!

See ya, eh!

Bob