Term increase likely for drink-driving causing death

A man who caused the deaths of three people after driving on the wrong side of the road is facing an increase on his four-year term after an appeal by the DPP.

The Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday found the sentence of four years, with one suspended, given to Kevin McArdle, aged 31, of Longfield, Carrickmacross, at Monaghan Circuit Criminal Court in Oct 2011 for dangerous driving causing death was “unduly lenient”.

McArdle drank almost three and a half times the legal alcohol limit and was on the wrong side of the road when he drove into Stephen Connolly’s car on Dec 27, 2010.