Man jailed for refusing drink drive test

A man found guilty of refusing to be tested for drink driving following a car crash, was jailed for four months and given a four-year road ban, by Judge Dermot Dempsey, at the Dublin District Court today.

Jobless father-of-one Gerard Eglington (aged 23) of Markievicz House, in Dublin 2, had denied refusing to give a blood or urine sample, at Kevin Street Garda station, on August 28, 2008.