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GARDAÍ ARE SETTING up Mandatory Intoxicant Testing (MIT) checkpoints nationwide over the Easter break.
The MIT checkpoints which will test drivers for the presence of alcohol and drugs.
A total of 59 people have been killed or seriously injured in Easter Bank Holiday crashes since 2012, according to figures released by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána.
Chief Superintendent of the Garda National Roads Policing Bureau Finbarr Murphy said:
“Members of the Garda Roads Policing Unit will be conducting roadside screening at MIT checkpoints right around the country, for both alcohol and drugs.
In addition to this we will be watching out for the erratic behaviour of drivers as a means of identifying those who may be driving under the influence of an intoxicant.
He added that gardaí “will also be targeting other killer behaviours such as speeding, mobile phone use and non-wearing of seatbelts”.
Drink driving
An RSA report in 2014 found that one third (33%) of drivers/motorcyclists that died had alcohol in their system at the time of their deaths.
The examination, which was conducted by the Health Research Board (HRB) as part of the National Drug Related Death Index (NDRDI), also found that 28% of pedestrians killed had a positive toxicology for alcohol.
Based on other reports it is estimated that drugs play a role in as many as one in ten fatal crashes in this country. Chief Executive of the RSA Moyagh Murdock said:
Nobody ever thinks that something bad like being in a crash will ever happen to them, but it can.
“Have fun and enjoy the weekend but please remember that the decisions you make when using the road determine if you make it home safely. This means deciding not to drive under the influence of drugs or after drinking. If you have been drinking make alternative plans to get home safety.”
A total of 38 people have been killed on Irish roads to date in 2018. This represents a decline of eight deaths compared to the same date last year.
The Chief Superintendent added, “Our priority is to ensure that people who use the road responsibly are not put at risk by the minority of drivers who act without any consideration for the safety of others on the road.”
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So sad.
All for oil. Disgusting!
Shocking stuff altogether.
Just a horrendous situation. I wonder will Hussein Obama still tout Yemen as one of his “great foreign policy success stories”?
What is happening is the continuation of the Sunni/Shia conflict that originated following the death of Mahomed when the religion split on the interpretation of how Islam would develop. This conflict is being acted out in a modern weapon context. For them the normal rules of war do not exist.
Indeed: a Kalashnikov makes a mighty warrior out of a little kid in todays world and the dastardly British and french liberated the Arabs from the gentle rule of the ottomans who had kept the lid on religious strife for centuries. By the way- does anybody think hitler would have paid for the oil or be coerced by suicide bombers?
Gaining a better understanding of what is happening in Yemen today , and why .
Yemen – the Big Picture. US Sponsored Civil Wars
Peter Koenig, economist and geopolitical analyst, worked in Yemen in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“Yemen is a patchwork of tribes, the result of former colonies, therefore made vulnerable for conflicts; easily ignitable conflicts. A situation left behind on purpose by the old British colonial masters, today servants to the Washington Empire. That’s the name of the game throughout the Middle East – and eventually throughout the world. Divide and rule, ( a strategy successfully implemented in N.Ireland for many years)– by Zionist-Anglo-Saxon organized and never-ending chaos.
It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos. But these never-ending implanted internal conflicts and civil wars in far-away countries are produced by design, not to end soon. They are multi-benefit endeavors, lubricating the US war machine, assuring the ‘need’ for US intervention and occupation, and they are paving the way for US / western transnational corporations’ unabated and merciless exploitation of the victims’ riches, looting their natural resources and enslaving their people. The globalized warriors, the emperor’s proxy armies, NATO and NATO-CIA trained mercenaries encounter little resistance from the population. People oppressed by civil strife have no time and energy to defend their rights, resources and country. They must fight for their sheer survival.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/yemen-the-big-picture/5440957
“It is certainly true, where ever the US and its NATO cronies put their heavy boots, they create lasting misery and chaos.”
I’m sure the people liberated from Nazi occupation in N.W and S. Europe, from Japanese occupation in the Pacific region and from communist occupation in Korea would beg to differ with that assertion.
Honestly, I read that entire article and couldn’t find a single piece of evidence to back up the author’s claims. It’s one long opinion piece with absolutely zero facts in there. All it amounts to is the angry ranting of someone who obviously has an issue with both the US and backing up arguments.
@Pat O’D Also to get a better understanding of fantasy vs. reality see more of Peter Koenig’s make-belief,-
“The Kouachi brother, as well as Amedy Coulibaly, the suspect in the hostage drama of the Hyper Cacher food market in eastern Paris, whose identities and past activities were well recorded in French police files, were most likely pre-identified as perpetrators of the probable pre-meditated murderous attacks that left 17 people dead within three days of horror in Paris; attacks so well organized and carried out that they could easily wear the stamp of French special forces, CIA, Mossad or all three of them – because, cui bono – who benefits? – Perhaps the Masters of all three of them?’
Brutality of Islamic state.It shows no mercy,not even towards innocent children.
How many have been killed by previous drone strikes ?
Who is guilty of starting all this trouble in the Middle East.
Yeah, because the Middle East was an idyllic paradise for the previous millennia.
At the minute it’s american backed Saudis doing the bombing.
The same Saudi lads that armed ISIS.
Davedunne
The very same lads.
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