Drink-drive move is an outrage

■ The latest desperate attempt of our Government to make itself seem useful is an outrage to almost everybody outside Dublin.

Given the increasingly desperate state of our great country (widespread unreliable medical checks, environmental pollution, the enormous national debt of about €200,000 per free-market worker, hospital deaths, dumping, unhealthy water supplies, and so on), spending all that time dreaming up yet another law on blood alcohol levels is ludicrous.

Increasing unemployment and mental health problems by bankrupting dozens of isolated rural pubs/social centres is of no interest or concern to any of the TDs in their ivory tower.

Two (off-duty) gardaí agreed with me at a party that it was indeed the law’s intention to ruin the lives of drivers who had done no harm to anybody but would make no attempt whatsoever to punish drivers who actually had an accident – which information is freely available to them through insurance companies.

Is this already the sort of powercrazed, self-serving and ultimately useless Government that Orwell used to write about?

Richard Barton

Maynooth, Co Kildare