Driver fined after being found drunk with pants undone

Gardaí who followed a driver whose car swerved erratically across a road on St Valentine’s night found him drunk with his trousers undone.

Gardaí stopped Melvyn Russell and his wife Donna after they noticed his Renault Laguna car swerve near the village of Drumkeen in Co Donegal.

Mr Russell, aged 42, and his wife Donna had been out for a meal earlier that night and had returned because Mrs Russell was feeling unwell. However, he went out again to see a friend who was living alone.