Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Kerry County grants permission to drive drunk


"The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January [2013] 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 drivers. Besides, they reasoned, the area is so sparsely-populated that some drivers never encounter anyone else on the road at night. (Coincidentally--or not--"several” of the five councillors voting "yea" own pubs.)"  ― Weirduniverse.net and BBC News, 1-22-2013]

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Sonic, and Mario appear on new Irish postage stamps

By Jack Brummet, Games Ed.


Ireland released four new postage stamps today: Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Sonic, and Mario.  The stamps were created by a Dublin-graphics studio, Zinc Design Consultants.

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