Gardaí are urging motorists to be aware of fatigue this Bank Holiday weekend.

AT LEAST 80 lives have been saved since the roll-out of random breath testing on Irish roads nearly a year ago.

A total of 28 people have been injured in up to 40 motorway collisions in Co Kildare.

GARDAÍ are continuing to arrest, in increasing numbers, suspected drink drivers despite random breath testing being introduced over four months ago.

More than 100 people were arrested for suspected drink driving as the Bank Holiday weekend got underway, it was confirmed today.

Mid-way through the bank holiday weekend, gardaí are renewing their appeal to motorists not to drink and drive after 86 people were arrested yesterday on suspicion of drink-driving.

Foreign national drivers may not have adequate motor insurance cover to drive on Irish roads, it was claimed today.

WIDESPREAD random breath-testing of motorists is still some way off but gardaí are immediately beginning a more limited form of testing in the vicinity of pubs.

MOBILE PHONE usage was not included in 31 new penalty point offences announced yesterday - five years after a promised Government clampdown.

IRELAND is bucking European trends in terms of falling road fatalities, while the North’s road deaths toll fell to its lowest figure in 50 years.

Michael Brennan

URGENT steps are to be taken to close a legal loophole which has left thousands of drink-driving prosecutions in doubt after the Supreme Court found procedures used in breath tests had no legal basis.