Danny Healy-Rae thinks that people should be able to drink a couple of pints and drive home, but only on quiet country roads. Otherwise, the isolation that people suffer will put them at risk of suicide.
Isolation and loneliness are real problems in rural areas, as is the lack of viable public transport. The solution hardly lies in suggesting that people will die by suicide if denied the chance to do something harmful like drinking and driving.
For understandable reasons, people talk about destigmatising suicide, in the hope that people will be more inclined to look for help when in distress. The message we want to give is that there is always a better way.
Source: Breda O'Brien, Irish Times, 26/01/2013
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