80 drink driving arrests a day in bank holiday clampdown

GARDAÍ arrested an average of 80 motorists a day on suspicion of drink driving during the four-day bank holiday weekend clampdown.

Despite the high-profile road safety campaign, six people were killed in collisions in the Republic while a seventh person died in Co Fermanagh.

Those who died include a man and a woman, both aged 20, who were killed when their car hit a pedestrian barrier in Dundalk in the early hours of yesterday morning.