More people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence yesterday than during Christmas Day last year.

Road safety campaigner Aisling Reid of PARC has said that Independent Alliance Minister of State Finian McGrath should resign.

A High Court judge has rejected claims by a man convicted of drink driving that, before breathalysing him, a garda should have given him the option of having the printed breath specimen result in Irish or English.

The Transport Minister Shane Ross has launched a scathing attack on what he calls "the lunatic fringe" in Leinster House who are opposed to tougher drink-driving laws.

People are being warned not to drive the morning after a night out.

Ten people were arrested on Christmas Day on suspicion of drink-driving.

The highest rates of drink driving were found in Cavan and Monaghan.

82% of Irish drivers will consume alcohol over the Christmas period this year, despite the new drink drive regulations introduced this year.

Ahead of the traditional Christmas party season, AA Ireland has warned motorists of the dangers of drink-driving.

Drinking even one pint of beer or one glass of wine could put you over the limit for drink driving is the warning from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety as a Christmas and New Year safety appeal is launched today.

Motorists have been urged to take the time to understand recent changes to the drink-driving laws ahead of the Christmas period.

New rules on drink-driving have taken effect which will automatically disqualify any motorists who are found to have consumed alcohol.

New rules on drink-driving are to take effect from tonight which will automatically disqualify any motorists who are found to have consumed alcohol.

Less than 2,000 motorists were tested for drug-driving since the legislation was introduced in April 2017, new figures show.

A family of six who endured horrendous injuries after their car was involved in a crash when a car ploughed in to the them from the wrong side of the road have called on motorists not to drink and drive.

Officers failed to see the funny side of this driver's antics.

A lorry driver has been charged with a number of offences after a garda breath test indicated he was 11 times over the drink-driving limit.

The driver of a lorry has been arrested, after a Garda breath test indicated he was eleven times over the drink-driving limit.

It’s difficult to take Transport Minister Shane Ross seriously, given his previous life as a journalist and his current life as a populist politician.

The number of people dying on the roads has risen again, reversing the downward trend of recent years.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has accused rural TDs who tried to block a drink-driving bill of needlessly risking the lives of their own constituents after it emerged two in every three road deaths this year have occurred in rural areas.

The Chief Executive of the Road Safety Authority has paid tribute to all those who battled for years to ban drink driving.

“It is a sad day for rural Ireland,” boomed a defiant Danny Healy Rae.

The High Court has been asked to rule on whether a previous judgment in a drink driving case could be grounds for dismissing a number of other cases.

Ahead of the June bank holiday weekend, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and An Garda Síochána are warning motorists to take care on the roads.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has today accused Danny Healy Rae and others of "behaving like road traffic terrorists".

The father of a teenage cyclist who was struck by a drink driver has described having to leave his son’s body at the side of the road to get home to break the news to his daughters before they found out on social media.

The heartbroken family of an 18-year-old cyclist who was fatally injured by the careless driving of a motorist have been left to wonder how any driver could go on the road after drinking.

A new driving series on RTÉ reveals how even legal limits of alcohol can have potentially fatal consequences when motorists get behind the wheel.

US prosecutors have charged an illegal immigrant over an alleged drink-driving crash that killed Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his Uber driver in Indiana.

A new survey shows people are still continuing to drink and drive.

Almost 1 in 12 Irish motorists have been involved in a collision or experienced a near miss as a result of a road user operating their vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Young people who have been arrested for drink-driving are to take part in research for the Road Safety Authority to understand why they get behind the wheel after drinking.

A drink driver engaged in horrible and insulting behaviour to gardaí, it was claimed yesterday, but he said they treated him abominably and carried him into a garda station “like a splayed frog”.

Former England star Trevor Sinclair racially abused a policeman after being arrested for drink driving whilst twice the limit, a court heard.

The Transport Minister says he wants to bring in higher penalty points for speeding as soon as possible.

A challenge by a Romanian man who argued his drink driving prosecution could not proceed because he was not supplied with a breath alcohol statement in Irish as well as in English has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.