A revamp of senior garda ranks is expected tomorrow with Commissioner Drew Harris to announce appointments and a management reshuffle.

Drug drivers are being targeted over the June bank holiday weekend as gardaí report a 15% rise in arrests for driving 'under the influence' over the first four months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

There has been a 24% increase in detections of people holding mobile phones while driving - a practice which makes the driver four times more likely to crash.

The number of Cork motorists with penalty points on their driving licence dropped by 10% in 2018. Road Safety Authority figures show that 52,784 drivers living in Cork at the end of last year got penalty points on their licence in the previous 36 months.

Gardaí have expressed concern at the death count on the country's roads to date this year, with the number of fatalities up 30% on the same period in 2018.

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

An order of new garda motorcycles has been ditched by management looking for ways of “freeing up” money to pay for a rebranding of the Traffic Corps in the wake of the breath-testing scandal.

The Garda chief has said that all of the country’s divisional commanders have told him that the lack of frontline supervision of garda members was a problem.

Alcohol accounts for almost 40% of fatal road crashes in the run-up to Christmas, according to the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

Two hundred and twenty five people were caught speeding on National Slow Down day yesterday.

A 52-year-old man struck by a truck in Dublin yesterday evening brings to 77 the number of people killed on the roads so far this year, writes Catherine Shanahan.

A 52-year-old man struck by a truck in Dublin yesterday evening brings to 77 the number of people killed on the roads so far this year.

"Drink- or drug-driving is totally unacceptable, totally selfish…It costs lives on our roads, there is no other way to put it."

Just over 70 gardaí have been trained in how to use the new roadside drug testing devices, writes Joyce Fegan.

Just over 70 gardaí have been trained in how to use the new roadside drug testing devices.