Councillor calls for speeders to be jailed

ONE of the country’s longest serving public representatives is calling for the introduction of a mandatory seven-day prison sentence for motorists convicted of significantly exceeding the general 100 kilometres an hour speed limit.

The call came yesterday from Fianna Fáil councillor Kieran O’Ryan, who has been a member of Waterford County Council for more than half a century.

The veteran councillor spoke of his outrage at the continuation of the carnage on Irish roads in the first week of a new year when he told the monthly county council meeting that all the appeals over the years from local authorities to motorists to behave responsibly had largely fallen on deaf ears.