Gardaí praised on weekend free of road deaths

FOLLOWING one of the first weekends in many years that no one died on the nation’s roads, gardaí have been praised for the numbers of people they have caught drink driving in the last week.

A total of 861 people were arrested for drink driving in the week preceding and following the June bank holiday weekend. That compared to 724 in the period around the May bank holiday weekend.

Between June 4-10, 445 people were caught drink driving — that’s up by 30 on the previous week.