I don’t use the word ‘langers’, claims driver in failed appeal

A Dublin motorist who crashed an Audi car over the side of a skew bridge in Cork on to railway tracks below later said to a garda: “You know I am drunk — I am langers.”

I don’t use the word ‘langers’, claims driver in failed appeal

A Dublin motorist who crashed an Audi car over the side of a skew bridge in Cork on to railway tracks below later said to a garda: “You know I am drunk — I am langers.”

In an unsuccessful appeal against his conviction for dangerous driving and drink driving, he said this was a Cork expression and that as a Dubliner, he never used the word “langers”.

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