A civil engineer who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has been jailed for three years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A civil engineer from Cavan who crashed and killed a man while drunkenly driving in the wrong direction down a dual carriageway has had his five year suspended sentence overturned for being too lenient.

A drunk Cavan man who drove 7kms in the wrong direction down a dual carriage and killed a man returning from his fiancée’s birthday party has avoided jail.