An alcohol awareness charity has criticised a Kerry councillor’s call to allow rural drivers have two or three drinks before driving home, while an organisation representing vintners said it hoped the proposal started a conversation on the issues facing rural Ireland.

THE STORY OF how Kerry County Council voted for a plan to allow rural drivers to have ‘two or three drinks’ to combat rural isolation has, understandably, made a lot of headlines today.

THE GOVERNMENT HAS dismissed a motion backed by Kerry County Council to relax drink-driving limits in rural parts of Ireland in order to allow isolated people to have “two or three” drinks before driving home.

An alcohol awareness charity has criticised a Kerry councillor's call to allow rural drivers have two or three drinks before driving home, while an organisation representing vintners said it hoped the proposal started a conversation on the issues facing rural Ireland.

From The Irish Times JASON KENNEDY and ANNE LUCEY An alcohol awareness charity has criticised Kerry councillor Danny Healy-Rae ’s call to allow rural drivers have two or three drinks before…

Local police in Ireland's Kerry county will be allowed to permit some residents to drive drunk if a measure passed yesterday by county councilors is approved by the Department of Justice.

From BBC News Councillors in south-west Ireland have backed a plan to relax the drink-drive limits for some isolated constituents. The motion backed by Kerry county councillors would allow police…

A rural county in Ireland has supported a proposal to allow drink-driving to prevent people from becoming depressed. Kerry County councillors voted in favour of a motion that would issue permits to isolated older residents, all