Gardai will be out in droves this Bank Holiday weekend with standard checkpoints in place to clamp down on anyone trying to drive after having a few drinks as road deaths increase on Irish roads.
So if you’re worried you could be over the limit this weekend, Drinkaware have an alcohol calculator that will tell you how long it your body will take to process the amount of drink you had. Of course, everyone is different, and what you eat and drink after will alter the time frame, but this is what the expert estimations recommend.If you have 10 pints of Guinness, Heineken, Carlsberg or some other lager or stout which is around 4.5%.
If you finish off one bottle of red or white wine you will have to stay off the road for eight hours after you finish.If you are sticking to vodka and manage to drink 10 in total, that would mean no driving for 10 hours after your last drink.Going for a wild night out by drinking beer in the pub for the day and then heading to a nightclub and switching to vodka.