‘Significant’ drink driving arrests as two die on roads

A SIGNIFICANT number of arrests for drink driving were reported over the bank holiday, as Operation Surround kicked into action for the last of the big summer motoring weekends.

Operation Surround, scheduled to run until midnight last night, involved a series of high-visibility checkpoints, covert patrols and random breath-testing.

The Garda Press Office said the full impact of the crackdown would be evaluated this week but reports from traffic units on duty around the country over the weekend indicated there had been a “significant” number of arrests.