Limerick drink driving up by 20%

THE head of the Limerick garda division has expressed his shock at the 20% increase in the number of motorists stopped for drink driving in Limerick this year.

Chief Supt Willie Keane: “This means that we have had approximately 100 more people detected this year for drink driving over and above the same period in 2004.”

He said there had been around 600 drink driving arrests in the first 11 months of 2005, compared to 500 last year.