Gaybo slams fine for 200kph ‘galoots’

ROAD safety boss Gay Byrne said yesterday the real issue was not how a video of two men speeding at 192kph was passed to the media but the behaviour of the convicted men, whom he branded as “galoots”.

“The focus should be: ‘Are the gardaí lying when they said that these guys were travelling at 120mph, weaving in around the traffic at night and making a video in the cars while they were doing that? That’s the story,” he insisted.

“I think it is disgraceful behaviour and I think in the light of those facts that the sentence was appallingly and disgracefully lenient, and the members of the board of the Road Safety Authority all feel the same way.”