Challenge to drink drive flaw considered

Minister may go to Supreme Court to prevent thousands of dismissals

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe may appeal to the Supreme Court over the drink-driving loophole, amid fears that thousands of drunk drivers could have their cases dismissed.

Mr Donohoe enacted emergency legislation to close the loophole, hours after Monday’s High Court ruling which allowed a Romanian man to escape a conviction because his breathalyser test result was not issued to him in Irish.