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Jackie Healy-Rae led the charge. Providing enough ammunition for the urban snobs to scoff at culchies well into the next decade, he proudly declared his stance against reducing thce drink drive limit. At 50 milligrams the new regulations will mean that a single pint would pit you against the garda's breathalyser in a game you were sure to lose. Tackle the boy racers, tackle the speedsters, tackle everyone but me - let me hop behind...

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Dermot Ahern, the Irish Justice minister is to introduce a law that will make blasphemy a legally punishable offense in Ireland with fines of up to €100,000 as reported in the Irish Times. At a time when Ireland is struggling to build credibility in the international community, this latest move by Fianna Fail is set to make a laughing stock out of the country, projecting an image of a draconian backwater state turning to God...

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