Dr. Declan Bedford:

I do. That 15% to 20% of fatal crashes in the morning have alcohol involved. I was speaking one day with gardaí at an education meeting and they told me it can be awkward and they do not want to be seen as Big Brother too much. I said that if they set up a check on the road I use in the mornings, the M3 to Dublin, or if they put up a sign indicating a mandatory alcohol breath test stop, there would be drivers counting themselves lucky and saying that if they had been there five minutes afterwards they would have been caught. Even if they did not do a single test and people saw them taking down the sign and started thanking God for it, if they did it a few times, people would get the word out and think they should mind themselves on the night before.