ANTI-DRINK driving campaigners last night demanded that former minister Dr Jim McDaid be subjected to the full rigour of the law after he was arrested for driving the wrong way down on a Kildare dual carriageway.

Successive governments have failed the relatives of loyalist bombing victims in Dublin and Monaghan for almost 30 years, it was claimed tonight.

A man who survived the First World War could not survive a stroll down the street in his own city, the inquest into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings heard today.

DISGRACED Fianna Fáil TD GV Wright, who admitted knocking down a pedestrian while drink driving, could have used a constitutional privilege for TDs and Senators to avoid prosecution.