Hundreds of drink-driving cases could be thrown out

Hundreds of drink-driving cases could be thrown out after the High Court ruled that alcohol test results have to be printed in English and Irish.

Mr Justice Seamus Noonan ruled that a breath alcohol test statement is not a valid piece of evidence if it is in English only.

He said a statement produced after a test had been performed by gardaí, who had arrested Mihai Avadenei, 29, for a drink-driving offence, had not been printed in Irish.