Press Release Summary: This week saw the farcical and sudden decision by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to ground almost 300,000 young Irish motorists driving unaccompanied on a provisional license revoked by the Minister for Transport and Communications, Noel Dempsey.
Press Release Body: This week saw the farcical and sudden decision by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to ground almost 300,000 young Irish motorists driving unaccompanied on a provisional license revoked by the Minister for Transport and Communications, Noel Dempsey. The decision to implement it by the RSA, at just four days notice, caused uproar throughout the country, particularly in rural areas, where self reliance on the motor car is essential given the lack of public transport. Also, the pig-headiness of the RSA and the Department to attempt to enforce an immediate ban on young drivers, who are in such a plight because of the notorious delays in getting tests supposed to be organized by the self same RSA and Department, can be attributed to only one person - Gay Byrne. Having retired many years ago with a present of a Harley Davidson motor bike from Bono, Byrne has been hopping up and down in various media roles, offering the nation his puritanical wisdom from his pulpit high on the Hill of Howth. Somebody came up with the brainwave - perhaps his pompous self - of appointing him to the position of chairman of the RSA a couple of years ago. He promised earth shattering reform to tackle road deaths in Ireland and loudly proclaimed to personally take responsibility in reducing the numbers meeting their maker on the roads. Gay was going to solve the problem- you'd better believe it folks!
Two years, and lots of tears, later the body count rises to record levels and the only thing that the RSA can do is make graphic TV advertisements showing young people being killed and maimed in horrific accidents. The trouble is that the young people at which they are aimed are all on U-tube, Bebo, and Facebook and don't have time to watch telly because they are then out clubbing, drinking, snorting and speeding. These people are in a minority and give a bad name to the vast majority of responsible young drivers who are safety conscious individuals, using their cars primarily for work and education. Then along comes Gaybo in his indignant high moral mode, and having made no progress in any of his unimaginative initiatives, decides to effectively ban all young learner drivers at a stroke without as much as a full weeks notice. Listen, you stupid retiree! You have no expertise on road safety (other than having learned to ride a free Harley Davidison) and you should not be in the position of chairman of the RSA for a moment longer. You undertook to solve the problems and you have failed miserably - the numbers speak for themselves. Deaths of young people on the roads of Ireland have risen since you took over despite all your grand promises. And last week you tried to whitewash all this failure with a bunch of ill-thought proposals not even discussed with the Garda authorities. In all your pontification you seem to have missed one simple statistic. 70% of road deaths of young people occur between midnight and 5am. If that were tackled properly by blanket Garda checkpoints outside night clubs and bars, the death toll would drop like the penny should drop with you. Take your Harley and ride off into the sunset, you arrogant fool! http://www.lookaroundireland.com 2nd November 2007.
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