Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A story with a worrying political hint

Even before results come back from the lab, the story of Clare Daly's apprehension on suspicion of drink driving by the Garda is on every newspaper in the country.

Last month in the Dáil the north Dublin socialist Independent TD named a judge as one of those who alledgedly benefited from the quashing of penalty points by a garda officer.

Is there need to consider this a worrying development?

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