"Just zis Guy, you know?" writes:

fatalities by more than 10% (i.e. 1/2 death per year in Eire).

A tip: don't say Eire (or even Éire) -- it makes you come across
as an old fogey. The term was used in English as the name of the
state between 1937 and 1948, though it is still the Irish language
name.

More on topic,
url:http://www.nsc.ie/whats_new/NewsExtra_Details.cfm?NewsExtraID=32&recordID=106& location=main
leads to the National Safety Council's reading on the matter (four
research papers, including Povey et al and a case-control study).

If that URL doesn't survive,
url:http://www.nsc.ie/whats_new/index.cfm might.

Brendan
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Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland
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