Drink driving arrests show 73% rise

GARDAÍ have revealed that they made 451 arrests for drink-driving in Cork, Kerry and Limerick last month, representing a massive 73% increase on October 2005.

Billy Duane, the Garda regional traffic corps inspector, said yesterday that significant increases in the number of arrests had been made in the five garda divisions. Most notably the number of arrests exactly doubled in Kerry and Limerick and nearly doubled in Cork City.

Inspector Duane said that to October 31 this year there had been a total of 2,949 arrests for drink-driving in the three counties, while there were 2,192 arrest in the comparable period last year.