Tánaiste prescribed Valium after crash
The Fianna Fáil TD’s doctor recommended the sedatives for anxiety on trips that began after he and his wife Mary were involved in a crash.
Mr Colley and his wife secured the equivalent of more than €30,000 compensation for the accident at the hands of a garda driver. The pair had been returning from Sligo to Dublin in the early hours of the morning on April 15, 1978, when the ministerial car skidded on loose chippings at a sharp bend near Drumsna, Co Leitrim. The assigned garda driver lost control of the Peugeot 604 as it careered from left to right on to a grass embankment before flipping over on to the road again and into bushes.
